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Photos of Billy McDonald's time serving with General Chennault & the Flying Tigers during WWII. These photos can also be found in a book by William C. McDonald, III, entitled- "The Shadow Tiger: Billy McDonald, Wingman to Chennault"
1938 Angle, Sharp, Scott in Mengtsze CNAC base
Dutch air Force Hawk 75
Mr. McDonald's Flying Tigers AVG pin
Crash at Tenchunig
Hawk Special planese
Yangtze Gorge viewed from the air while flying the Hump
Fake Hawk 75 for Japanese to bomb in 1938
Chinese boy scouts
Vacation in Hanoi
Crash site viewed from the air
A photo of Madame Chiang, wife of Chiang Kai-shek
A letter from Madame Chiang
A variety of flight maneuvers by the air acrobatics team
A painting of a CNAC transport aircraft
A P-40 Warhawk with the famous shark tooth nose art of the Flying tigers
A CNAC plane being maintained at a Chinese airfield
A painting of the P-12 aircraft used by the Flying Trapezers
An exhibit about the resupply mission over "The Hump" to Nationalist Chinese forces
The Chung was the symbol of the CNAC
Military end of field at Kunming
Newspaper clipping about the Flying Tigers
Major Chennault
After winning the National Air Race
Flying over "The Hump" on a resupply mission
A successful tiger hunt
On vacation in Hanoi
Advising Chinese officers in theater.
Flying over "The Hump" on a resupply mission
A newspaper article describing one of the Flying Tigers' many victories against the Japanese.
A Terry & the Pirates cartoon showing the unfamiliar world that pilots in China experienced.
A DC-2 at a remote airstrip as part of a resupply mission.
The aerial acrobatics team at Maxwell Field in 1933 in front of their Boeing P-12 aircraft.
Shanghai Harbor
The aerial acrobatics team
Myktina 1st flights with 11th Combat Cargo
The "Empress of Russia" transported the Flying Tigers to China
Camco plant building Hawk 75s in 1938
Trainees- most were killed by 1939
Refueling a C-47
A second generation Hawk 75
CNAC operations office
After a crash landing in a field
Flying "The Hump" in a C-47
Mr. McDonald while with the Flying Tigers in China
Burma Road