![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() ![]() Under the trees where Japs cannot spot them, Americans repair and service their Curtiss P-40's. Close-up of plane badly shot up is shown in right photo. Crude chain-hoist over tree typifies makeshift facilities used by A.V.G. Initials C.A.M. Co., on truck refer to Central Aircraft Manufacturing Co., which recruited A.V.G. |
![]() |
SMASHED JAP PLANES AND CREWS GIVE A.V.G. PILOTS THE MEASURE OF VICTORY |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() George Rodger has gone to more sweat and pain to get a few pictures in LIFE than any other LIFE photographer. He has photographed the Free French in Africa, the sandy war of Libya, the grimy war of Ethiopia, the travail of Syria, Iran and Iraq, the Northwest Frontier, India. But in Burma, he found a group of the best American fliers the U.S. will ever produce. There he took the extraordinary pictures of the Flying Tigers of Burma. |
Since April 11, 2007 |