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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Downtown on January 03, 2000, 07:53:00 AM
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Well, for Christmas my wife got me "Fei Hu" (Gotta Love a woman that buys you WWII Aircraft Videos.)
This particular video is available from Amazon dot com, and features some actual 8MM Camera footage filmed (Mostly by Ed Rector and R.T. Smith I think.) of the AVG Personell in Burma and China during the first part of 1941. There are interviews with some of the surviving Tigers and ground crew personell, a Japanese Bomber pilot who flew in China, and was Shot up Good by the P-40B's (C's) of the AVG. Jane "Red" Foster (Petach) who married John Petach, one of the Tigers who volunteered to stay the "Two Weeks" of Transition while the Army took over. John was killed on the first mission that the Disbanded AVG members flew with the Army Pilots, leaving Jane a Pregnant Widow, trapped in China, and the Army in a Pissing Contest trying to keep the former AVG'rs from going home.
There is also some Gun Camera footage, that must come from the Flying Tigers, and I was very excited to see what must be a RZNAF Brewster Buffalo suddenly fly into view between an AVG P-40 shooting at a I-94 (Nell?) They did use some footage from the John Wayne movie, but there are instances where I could see the Chinese Roundels on a P-40 in Flight.
Also good footage of the Japanes Bombing China and Rangoon, that could only have been filmed by the Bomber crews.
(http://www.tir.com/~lkbrown1/p40.gif)
I give this one 5 stars for all AVG enthusiast.
Probably 3 Stars for WWII Aircraft enthusiast.
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"I could feel the 20MM Cannon impacting behind me so I made myself small behind the pilot armor" Charlie Bond AVG
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[This message has been edited by Downtown (edited 01-03-2000).]
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Ah, there was all that interest in the "Flying Tigers" before, now no one but me cares. Well I guess I will just test my new and improved sig
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Lincoln "Downtown" Brown.
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Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Hals und beinbruch!
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I like the tigers and the P40 b-c in tiger markings is my favorite a/c. Hope we get to fly it some time. Course we would need a rolling plane set or H/A areana cause it would not last to long aginst the current planes.