First American Volunteer Group “Flying Tigers” General Chennault Grouping- This grouping was the personal property of Lieutenant General Clair Lee Chennault, “Old Leatherface”, the commanding general of the A.V.G. aka “Flying Tigers”. This grouping includes many personal items of his and of his second wife, Anna (nee Chen Xiangmei).
-Republic of China flag signed by the following individuals:
General Claire Chennault
Mrs. C.K. Shek (Soong Mei-ling, wife of Chiang Kai-shek, General of the National Revolutionary Army and leader of the Republic of China)
Pappy Boyington (Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, an American combat pilot who was a United States Marine Corps fighter ace during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross. A Marine aviator with the Pacific fleet in 1941, Boyington joined the "Flying Tigers" and saw combat in Burma in late 1941 and 1942 during the military conflict between China and Japan.)
Tex Hill (David Lee "Tex" Hill, an American fighter pilot and triple flying ace. He is credited with 12+1⁄4 victories as a squadron leader with the Flying Tigers and another six as an officer in the United States Army Air Corps in World War II. He retired as a brigadier general.)
James Howard (James Howell Howard, a general in the United States Air Force and one of just two fighter pilots in the European Theater of Operations in World War II to receive the Medal of Honor. Howard was an ace in two operational theaters during World War II, with six kills over Asia with the in the Pacific, and six kills over Europe with the United States Army Air Forces.)
Bob Scott (Robert Lee Scott Jr. was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force and a flying ace of World War II, credited with shooting down 13 Japanese aircraft. Scott flew 388 combat missions in 925 hours from July 1942 to October 1943 and is noted as one of America's earliest flying aces of the war.)
Bruce Holloway (General Bruce Keener Holloway was a United States Air Force general. A West Point graduate, he was a fighter ace with the United States Army Air Forces in World War II and later served as Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force and commander-in-chief of the Strategic Air Command. After The US entered World War II in December 1941, Holloway was sent to China to observe Chennault's American Volunteer Group (AVG), the Flying Tigers. He became the commander of the 23rd Fighter Group USAAF. During his China tour, Holloway earned status as a fighter ace, shooting down 13 Japanese planes.[4][5] He returned to the US in 1944.)
Casey Vincent (Clinton Dermott "Casey" Vincent was an American flying ace who became the second youngest general officer in United States Army Air Forces history. Vincent was one of Claire Chennault's two top fighter commanders in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. He served as the model for two comic strip characters by Milton Caniff: "Colonel Vince Casey", and "Brigadier General P.G. 'Shanty' Town". Wishing for a combat post, in November 1942 he was ordered by Clayton Bissell, commander Tenth Air Force, to transfer to China to join General Claire Chennault and his China Air Task Force (CATF), a group formed from the Flying Tigers. Bissell's orders specified Vincent take the position of Chennault's executive officer, to apply a dose of West Point regimen to the haphazard CATF paperwork, but Chennault, irked at this maneuver by his 2,200-mile distant superior, instead assigned Vincent operations officer. Three days into the new job, Vincent wrote in his diary, "Any similarity between the China Air Task Force and a military organization is purely accidental." He observed that administrative procedures were poor. "...the Group just runs by itself. All Colonel Scott (Robert Lee Scott, Jr.) cares about is fighting—and he is good at that!")
Ajax Baumler (Albert John "Ajax" Baumler was an American fighter ace during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. In 1938, Baumler rejoined the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant, but in 1941 he resigned his commission again to join the "Flying Tigers" then training in Burma. He was however refused a passport due to his Spanish combat. He returned to the U.S. Army, and in December was assigned to the U.S. Military Mission in China, probably with the expectation that he would serve as AMISSCA's liaison to the AVG, which was in need of experienced staff officers. He flew east on a Pan Am Clipper flying boat that was carrying tires and spare parts for the AVG fighter planes. The cargo was dumped, and Baumler and the aircraft returned after it was strafed at Wake Island on the morning of December 7, 1941 – the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In February 1942, Baumler served in the 45th Pursuit Squadron, and in May he was sent to China as a U.S. Army captain. He was credited with two aerial victories, on June 3 and 22, though these cannot be confirmed, and the first is probably erroneous. From July 4, 1942, he served in the successor of the Flying Tigers, the 75th Fighter Squadron of the 23rd Fighter Group as a pilot and as squadron adjutant under Major David Lee "Tex" Hill. Flying P-40E fighters, he was credited with four or five further Japanese aircraft from July to September 1942, his last victories. From December 11, 1942, to February 18, 1943, he commanded the 74th FS. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal, and was promoted to major. He seems to have been the first American pilot credited with destroying aircraft of all three Axis Powers.)
-Paperweight belonging to General C. Chennault with his name in English as well as Chinese and also in Chinese, “Flying Tigers”. (May have had something mounted to it at one point?)
-Two sets of Flying Tiger/AVG pilot wings
-Large sized leather “Blood Chit”
-US Army officer visor cap insignia
-Cloth CBI sleeve patch
-Flyer for a talk given by Mrs. Claire Lee Chennault
-Old photos of Mrs. Chennault
-More modern photo of Mrs. Chennault
-Desk stationery from Mrs. Anna Chennault
-Multiple propaganda papers from late/post war
100% unique and ONE OF A KIND!!!!!