Here is Bluie West One at the height of its powers, with the east-west runway now hard-surfaced, a secondary runway at an angle to it, and a full quota of buildings.

Roster of the Flying Tigers, 1941-1942 The 1st American Volunteer Group was a unit of the Chinese Air Force, serving in Burma and China from December 1941 until mid-July 1942, …

Photo-map of Jack Newkirk's crash site, based on a 1944 RAF reconnaissance photo with labels by Jack Eisner. The railroad bridge is at the top (north) of the image. Newkirk first strafed this …

Poland's Daughter The Second World War -- the worst thing that ever happened. It started in September 1939, with Hitler's Wehrmacht invading Poland from the west, while Stalin's Red …

HOME > REVIEWS > KEMPEITAI Kempeitai: Japan's Gestapo Kempeitai: Japan's Dreaded Military Police (Ramond Lamont-Brown) I'm all in favor of books like this. As time goes on and …

Henry Gilbert Jr. was born in Oklahoma in September 1919. His family moved to Wyoming and homesteaded an unincorporated town called Frannie (the name of the postmaster's daughter). …

HOME > TIGERS > CHRISTMAN Tomahawk nose art by Bert Christman Allen "Bert" Christman of the AVG 2nd Squadron (aka the Panda Bears) had been a comic-strip artist in civilian life. …

HOME > EDWARDS > PHOTOS A Glen Edwards photo album "Buffalo Dave" over the Tunisian mountains, 14 Feb 1943. The pilot was Dave Bensley, Glen's tentmate and best friend in …

"Geoffrey Fisken was born in Gisborne, New Zealand, on 17 February 1918, and was a shepherd prior to the outbreak of World War II. Enlisting in the RNZAF, he was posted to Singapore on …

HOME > JAPAN > DENIAL Emotional protests to denial of Nanking Massacre [What follows is a reprint of an Associated Press story that ran in 2000. -- Daniel Ford] OSAKA, Japan (AP)- …