FLYING TIGERS ERIK SHILLING DICK ROSSI CHARLES OLDER CHARLES BOND JR. JOHN ALISON CAMILE ROSBERT CHARLIE MOTT EDWARD RECTOR BOB LAYHER DAVID HILL

Gift Locator Tool
Send Us Your Comments
Complete Signer Listing
New Inventory Listing

	Presidents, Vice Presidents & First Families
	U.S. Politicians
	Supreme Court

World Leaders

	Foreign Politicians
	Royalty

Military

	Civil War
	World War I
	World War II
	Other Wars

Exploration & Science

	Aviation
	Space Exploration
	Explorers & Western Americana
	Scientists, Inventors & Medicine
	Nobel Prize Winners

Social Reformers

	Black Americana
	Famous Women
	Religion
	Humanitarians

Achievers & Bad Guys

	Business & Finance
	Notorious
	Law & Order

Sports

	Baseball
	Football
	Basketball
	Hockey
	Golf
	Tennis
	Boxing
	Car & Motorcycle
	Horse Racing
	Wrestling
	Other Sports

The Arts

	Actors & Actresses
	Music & Performers
	Art & Architecture
	Authors
	Pulitzer Prize Winners

Don't Forget!

	Ephemera
	Unsigned Photos, Engravings & Misc.

Shopping Cart

My Account

Company Profile

What's In Store

Buys & News

Want to read in your language?
English German Dutch Español Français Italiano Portuguese Norwegian
Courtesy of FreeTranslation.com.

Questions about authenticity? Click Here	Enhanced Display \| Standard Display

FLYING TIGERS - PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: COLONEL CHARLES H. OLDER, MAJOR GENERAL CHARLES R. BOND JR., MAJOR GENERAL JOHN ALISON, CAMILE JOSEPH "JOE" ROSBERT, CHARLIE MOTT, EDWARD F. RECTOR, BOB LAYHER, BRIGADIER GENERAL DAVID L. "TEX" HILL, ERIK SHILLING, DICK ROSSI - DOCUMENT 276016

Click Here to Enlarge

FLYING TIGERS
Vivid photo of the warplanes in flight, signed by ten members of the celebrated fighter group.
Photograph signed: "Joe Rosbert/Adam & Eve 1st Sqdn/AVG 6.3 victories", "Charlie Bond/V/Sq Ldre, 1st ftr Sq/AVG Flying Tigers/9½ kills", "Ed Rector/Vice Sqd Ldr, 2nd sqd/Panda Bears, AVG", "Bob Layher/Pilot 2nd Sqd", "'Tex' Hill/Sqd Ldr 2nd Sqd./AVG/C.O. 75th Ftr Sqd./C. O. 23rd Ftr. Gp./18¼ Victories", "Charlie Mott/2nd Sqdn., AVG", "Erik Shilling", "John Alison/75th Ftr. Sq./23rd Gp/China 1942-1943", "Dick Rossi, AVG/Flt. Ldr, 1st Sqd./6¼ vs", "Chuck Older/3rd Sqdn., A.V. G./#68 18¼ victories". Color, 10x8. At the urging of former US Army Air Corps captain (later General) Claire Chennault, serving as advisor the Chinese Air Force, President Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order (April 15, 1941) allowing reserve officers and enlisted men in the US armed forces to resign from active duty and join an American Volunteer Group to fight with the Chinese Air Force in its struggle against Japan, which had attacked China in 1937. The AVG was actually short lived, seeing its first combat on December 20, 1941 - two weeks after Pearl Harbor - and being absorbed into the US Army Air Corps on July 4, 1942. In the intervening months, the AVG, universally known as the Flying Tigers, covered itself with glory. The Flying Tigers in their P40B fighters, painted with the famous shark's teeth and eyes, destroyed a confirmed 299 Japanese planes and notched 153 more probables, losing only 10 pilots in the air, 3 more on the ground, with 3 taken prisoner, while fighting in the China-Burma-India Theater. The Flying Tigers also compelled Japan to limit its terror bombing of Chinese cities, previously almost unopposed. Many of the flyers here have recorded their command responsibilities and numbers of enemy kills. ("Ace" status accrues to any pilot with at least 5 confirmed aerial victories.) Note that the plane in the foreground was the one flown by Charles H. "Chuck" Older, in later life the Los Angeles Superior Court judge who presided at the murder trial of Charles Manson. Fine condition.

This website image contains our company watermark. The actual document does not contain this watermark.

Price:

$5,500.00 (USD)

Click here to pop open a floating
Shopper's Currency Converter window.

All documents are being offered on a first-come first-serve basis and are sold unframed unless otherwise specified.

This website requires that cookies be enabled in your browser.

Whether looking for corporate, birthday or luxury gifts, nothing makes a more perfect and unique gift than an autographed item for someone special! Imagine the thrill of receiving an autographed item from one's hero or signed on the anniversary of one's birthday.

Click here for our Gift Locator Tool.

COLONELCHARLES H. OLDER
Born: September 29, 1917
Died: June 17, 2006

MAJOR GENERALCHARLES R. BOND JR.
Born: April 22, 1915

MAJOR GENERALJOHN ALISON
Born: November 21, 1912
Died: June 6, 2011

CAMILE JOSEPH ROSBERT
Born: January 19, 1917

EDWARD F. RECTOR
Born: September 28, 1916

BRIGADIER GENERALDAVID L. HILL
Born: July 13, 1915 in Kwangju, Korea (now Kwangju, South Korea)
Died: October 11, 2007 in Terrell Hills, Texas

Film Credits
2005 I'm King Kong!: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper (in person), 2001 History Undercover: The True Story of the Black Sheep Squadron (in person)

Previous Page

The unauthorized use of images found on this website
is prohibited and subject to criminal prosecution.

[ Home ] [ Shopping Cart ] [ Autograph Definitions ] [ Privacy & Security ] [ Terms & Conditions ] [ Contact us ]