Profile 00: Hawk 81A 23FG1PS P8125 white 1 flown by Peter Atkinson of the 1st Pursuit Squadron.

Profile 00: P-8103 flown by Dick Rossi of the 1st Pursuit Squadron. A small Chinese roundel was applied under the starboard cockpit ill the same position as the USAAF roundel shown on the port. The shark's mouth is provisional, as no photos of the aircraft with this marking could be found. The shark's mouth applied is the result of several interviews with Dick Rossi, and this rendering received his approval.

Profile 0A-0B: Hawk 81A-2 (P-8178) sometimes given as P-8198), 1st Pursuit Squadron (American Volunteer Group) Loiwing China April 1942, flown by the second in command of the squadron, Charles R. Bond, 8 kills with the Flying Tigers.

Photo’s 01-03: Three views of aircraft #6, P-8187, flown by Flight Leader John Deall. Note the mis-matched alignment of the camouflage demarcation line where the wing assembly meets the fuselage. This was due to the way Curtiss painted the aircraft ill sub-assemblies prior to mating them, resulting infrequent non-alignment of the color edges.

Ref: Eagle Files Tigers Over China by Thomas A. Tullis ISBN 0-966070674 www.eagle-editions.com

Profile 00-01: Hawk 81A-2 (P-8194) 1st Pursuit Squadron, Kunming,China, June 1942. Flown by First Squadron Leader Robert Neale, 15.55 kills with the Flying Tigers and the top American ace at the time the group was disbanded. P-8194 flown by Robert Neale of the 1st Pursuit Squadron.

Photo's
Hawk 81A AVG 23FG3FS W68 Charles Older China, May 1942 Wartime Color 01
Hawk 81A AVG 23FG3FS W68 Charles Older China, May 1942 Wartime Color 02
Hawk 81A 23FG1PS W3 P-8103 Kuming, China 1942

Profile 00: Hawk 81A 23FG1PS P8164 white 11 flown by Robert J. Sandell squadron leader of the 1st Pursuit Squadron 01

Photo 01-02:Probably the best photo of Greg Boyington's aircraft P-8182. Note the non-standard camouflage pattern all the mid-fuselage, and the faded "21". Some publications have incorrectly identified faded fuselage numbers such as this one as being yellow. No information supporting this theory has surfaced, nor have any A.V.G member interviewed by the author ever recalled any color other than white being used.

Hawk 8A-2 number 33 flown by first Squadron Leader Robert Little from Cumming, China April 1942

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