1st AVG Display

[US Victory Museum]

Posted with permission from the owner.

 

My apologies for the poor photos. These uniforms belong
to a friend of mine; both of us were invited to the Florida
Museum of Natural History's Collectors Day to put on a one
day display. Alan brough some of his Flying Tigers militaria.

Unfortunately I didn't quite compensate correctly for the
lighting conditions, thus the image quality suffered.

On the first image, the buttons are the Sun Burst of the
Nationalist Chinese.

 

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[Terry K.]

Those are nice and not often seen

[501stGeronimo]

WOOOOOOOW Sum Perty Flight Jackets There

[JDK]

Very nice A-2 jackets!

 

JD

[Bill Scott]

Just a question what is the AVG connection to these jackets these look like 14th Airforce or China air Task Force flight jackets.These jacket look much later than tha AVG period.These jackets are gorgeous but unless these pilots or ground crewmen were one of about 300 people that made up the AVG and transfered to the 14th Airforce its a stretch to call them AVG.Scotty

[JDK]

I was going to ask the same thing yesterday Bill, but decided to leave it alone. It all looks to be nice 14th AAF items except maybe the first uniform shown which looks to have a AVG patch on the sleeve?

 

JD

[Bill Scott]

JDK I agree it looks like a AVG on the jungle shirt but you can barely see it.If its an real AVG shirt its one rare rare item and if its named its beyond rare.Scotty PS I would love to see crisp photos of these beauties.

[MattS]

My army unit was called "Flying Tigers" and I have done a lot of research and read several books (pre-internet days) on the original AVG. We even had 3 original Tigers (Tex Hill, Carl Quick, and Bill Towery) at our unit activation ceremony in 1992, and had a fly-by with a P-40 and an AH-64 Apache. The original AVG (NOT the 23rd fighter Group, 14th AF) consisted of three pursuit squadrons (1st Adam and Eve, 2nd Panda Bears, and 3rd Hell's Angels) of 60 +/- P-40Bs flown by Americans who did not wear US military uniforms. There are numerous books and websites on the subject:

http://en.wikipedia....i/Flying_Tigers

http://www.flyingtigersavg.com/

http://acepilots.com/misc_tigers.html

http://www.warbirdforum.com/avg.htm

http://www.britannic...8/Flying-Tigers

[hueytaxi]

My army unit was called "Flying Tigers" and I have done a lot of research and read several books (pre-internet days) on the original AVG. We even had 3 original Tigers (Tex Hill, Carl Quick, and Bill Towery) at our unit activation ceremony in 1992, and had a fly-by with a P-40 and an AH-64 Apache. The original AVG (NOT the 23rd fighter Group, 14th AF) consisted of three pursuit squadrons (1st Adam and Eve, 2nd Panda Bears, and 3rd Hell's Angels) of 60 +/- P-40Bs flown by Americans who did not wear US military uniforms. There are numerous books and websites on the subject:

http://en.wikipedia....i/Flying_Tigers

http://www.flyingtigersavg.com/

http://acepilots.com/misc_tigers.html

http://www.warbirdforum.com/avg.htm

http://www.britannic...8/Flying-Tigers

D/229?

[MattS]

D/229?

 

3/229th Attack Helicopter Battalion, direct descendants of the 229th AVN from Vietnam, expect organized into 4 battalions with integrated Blackhawk (lift) and Kiowa (scout) support. The units were disbanded some years ago however.

[wawine]

I interviewed many of the original AVG pilots back in the 1980's. Every original uniform I have ever seen has in some way been through Larry Pistole's hands. There was some scary reproduction / fake work coming out of Seattle even then. Vintage flight gear painted with vintage paint and vintage fountain pen ink. I would send photos to Bob Neale, Dick Rossi and Catfish Raines for a second opinion and every one came back bad. I finally confronted the 'artist' and he fessed up. The moral of the story is to be very careful with any AVG clothing.

Best

Doug

[1SG_1st_Cav]

Absolutely stunning collection. Thanks ~ Danny

[josesharontraders]

Wow Danny,

 

Beautiful, estupendo! Thank you for sharing.

 

 

Who's AVG uniform, wings, cap, bullion, & patch are these attributed to?

 

 

Thanks.

 

 

josesharontraders

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posted with permission from the owner.

My apologies for the poor photos. These uniforms belong
to a friend of mine; both of us were invited to the Florida
Museum of Natural History's Collectors Day to put on a one
day display. Alan brough some of his Flying Tigers militaria.

Unfortunately I didn't quite compensate correctly for the
lighting conditions, thus the image quality suffered.

On the first image, the buttons are the Sun Burst of the
Nationalist Chinese.

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[Survival]

Well the blood chits are the souvenir type. The ones on the AAF cloth jacket look brand new. I don't believe that style jacket was available during the AVG period. The one on the leather A2 jacket has a CBI insignia which would not have been on a AVG period A2. Could have be added later if the crew man stayed on with the AAF after AVG was disbanded though.