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Photos of Billy McDonald's time serving with General Chennault & the Flying Tigers during WWII. These photos can also be found in a book by William C. McDonald, III, entitled- "The Shadow Tiger: Billy McDonald, Wingman to Chennault"
Shanghai Harbor
The aerial acrobatics team at Maxwell Field in 1933 in front of their Boeing P-12 aircraft.
Art Staymates in front of a downed C-47
A DC-2 at a remote airstrip as part of a resupply mission.
A Terry & the Pirates cartoon showing the unfamiliar world that pilots in China experienced.
A newspaper article describing one of the Flying Tigers' many victories against the Japanese.
Newspaper clipping about the Flying Tigers
Flying over "The Hump" on a resupply mission
Advising Chinese officers in theater.
On vacation in Hanoi
A successful tiger hunt
Flying over "The Hump" on a resupply mission
After winning the National Air Race
Major Chennault
Burma Road
Mr. McDonald while with the Flying Tigers in China
Flying "The Hump" in a C-47
After a crash landing in a field
CNAC operations office
The aerial acrobatics team
A second generation Hawk 75
Refueling a C-47
Trainees- most were killed by 1939
Camco plant building Hawk 75s in 1938
The "Empress of Russia" transported the Flying Tigers to China
Myktina 1st flights with 11th Combat Cargo
Crash site viewed from the air
Vacation in Hanoi
Chinese boy scouts
Fake Hawk 75 for Japanese to bomb in 1938
1938 Angle, Sharp, Scott in Mengtsze CNAC base
Yangtze Gorge viewed from the air while flying the Hump
Hawk Special planese
Crash at Tenchunig
Mr. McDonald's Flying Tigers AVG pin
Dutch air Force Hawk 75
Military end of field at Kunming
The Chung was the symbol of the CNAC
An exhibit about the resupply mission over "The Hump" to Nationalist Chinese forces
A painting of the P-12 aircraft used by the Flying Trapezers
A photo of Madame Chiang, wife of Chiang Kai-shek
A CNAC plane being maintained at a Chinese airfield
A P-40 Warhawk with the famous shark tooth nose art of the Flying tigers
A painting of a CNAC transport aircraft
A variety of flight maneuvers by the air acrobatics team
A letter from Madame Chiang