Original Caption - A Chinese soldier guards a line of American P-40 fighter planes, painted with the shark-face emblem of the ...

Fast forward to the 20 th century, when the group known as the Flying Tigers painted the front of one of the top WWII fighter aircraft, the Curtiss P-40, to look like a shark with a gaping mouth.

Before the Flying Tigers were stationed ... board displaying maintenance records. Fighter pilot R.T. Smith stands next to a P-40 in Kunming, China. The aircraft’s winged tiger design was created ...

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The Flying Tigers were the first American Volunteer ... being shot at multiple times by the deadly Japanese “Zero” fighter planes. After the war, China was embroiled in a turbulent civil ...

During 1941-45, the Flying Tigers killed more than 66,700 Japanese soldiers, shot down more than 3,000 enemy planes, ...