The Last Flying Tiger has Flown West.

[Shepherd]

Major Richard Sherman, the last surviving member of General Chennault's "Flying Tigers" has died at age 96.

https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/lo...IsZ4Dz01bsNvWZ_RODvtXs5ZN5sWX_W-EUdBe3A5bIwIQ

CAVU, Major. Well done.

 

[texasclouds]

Those guys were an amazing bunch.

 

[RyanShort1]

That's sad, but time doesn't stop marching. It's amazing that so many of them survived and so many of us could meet them.

 

[Eric Stoltz]

Thank you for posting this

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[3393RP]

Those men were in my Pantheon of Childhood Heroes. After reading God is my Co-Pilot when I was in fifth grade, I drew crude silhouettes of P-40s spitting .50 caliber slugs for weeks afterwards.

A great chapter in American military history has closed. RIP to Major Sherman and all of the Flying Tigers.

 

[ETres]

Those men were in my Pantheon of Childhood Heroes. After reading God is my Co-Pilot when I was in fifth grade, I drew crude silhouettes of P-40s spitting .50 caliber slugs for weeks afterwards.

A great chapter in American military history has closed. RIP to Major Sherman and all of the Flying Tigers.

Same for me in my childhood - the Flying Tigers were heroes! Sometimes I wonder how smart I might be now if I hadn't sniffed all that Tester's model cement while building dozens of plastic WWII aircraft models as a kid.