World War II Colour Photos
WWII in Color website has the Internet’s largest collection of rare color photographs from World War II. This one above is a signed photo of the Flying Tigers in China.
Flying Tigers was a volunteer group of pilots and ground crew, recruited under a secret presidential order by US President Roosevelt to fight Japanese forces (under disguise that they’re part of the Chinese Air Force) before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
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Interesting. That's Erik Shilling, and the photo was taken at Kunming in the spring of 1942 by Claire Booth Luce, the wife of the publisher of Time and Life magazines. But how did Erik sign it?
Note that the American Volunteer Group aka Flying Tigers had their first combat on 20 Dec 1941, twelve days after the Pearl Harbor attack (local time). For more about all this, see Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942 recently published by HarperCollins. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
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