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The date is the 71st anniversary of the first combat from Kunming of the Flying Tigers. The Memorial Cemetery to Anti-Japanese Aviator Martyrs in Nanjing, China features a wall listing the names of Flying Tiger pilots and other pilots who defended China in World War II, and has several unmarked graves for such American pilots. [34]
USS Tiger Shark is the setting for the 1951 movie, "Submarine Command" starring William Holden as a submarine captain haunted by a life and death decision made during wartime. The 1959 sci-fi movie The Atomic Submarine is about a submarine named Tiger Shark. USS Tigershark is featured in the 1995 episode of the television series JAG.
The Warhawk was used by most Allied powers during World War II, and remained in frontline service until the end of the war. It was the third most-produced American fighter of World War II, after the North American P-51 Mustang and Republic P-47 Thunderbolt ; by November 1944, when production of the P-40 ceased, 13,738 had been built, [ 3 ] all ...
In August 1943, the U.S. Navy submarine USS Tiger Shark patrols the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Receiving orders to pick up survivors spotted adrift by a British PBY Catalina patrol plane, the submarine rescues three survivors – British nurse Claire Paige, and two men, one of them wounded – from British hospital ship Fort James, sunk two days earlier; one survivor blames a German U ...
The Northrop F-20 Tigershark (initially F-5G) is a prototype light fighter, designed and built by Northrop.Its development began in 1975 as a further evolution of Northrop's F-5E Tiger II, featuring a new engine that greatly improved overall performance, and a modern avionics suite including a powerful and flexible radar.
No ship of the United States Navy has ever borne the name USS Tiger Shark or Tigershark, but the name is popular for fictional submarines (and real submarines have been named USS Shark). The fictional Tiger Shark in the film has the hull number SS-306, which belonged to USS Tang (SS-306) (lost in 1944). USS Sterlet (SS-392), a Balao-class ...
USS Shark (SS-314), a Balao-class submarine, was the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the shark, a large marine predator. Construction began in 1943 and commissioning occurred in 1944. Following shakedown, Shark was deployed to the Pacific, where she attacked ships and rescued downed airmen.
Operating from numerous airfields within China, the 75th Fighter Squadron compiled an impressive record during World War II and received the Presidential Unit Citation. After World War II, the squadron returned to the United States and was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington. There the squadron was inactivated on 5 January 1946. [7]