American Units

This wartime airline, operated by U.S. Army Air Force, had its origin in a 1931 attempt to distribute supplies by air within the United States. The following year, the Air Corps established a provisional air transport group with one squadron at each of four major supply depots. This arrangement became permanent in 1937 and was undergoing tremend...

On the 20th of December in 1941, at an icebound airfield outside the city of Kunming in China's Yunnan province, were scattered some 50 American Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighters, marked with the blue and white star of China and a row of vicious looking shark's teeth painted under their noses.