FIRST -- Combat Action Against the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force - Los Angeles, CA
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N 33° 56.139 W 118° 22.681
11S E 372642 N 3755875
One of several memorials at the Proud Bird in Los Angeles, California.
Waymark Code: WM16NQ1
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 09/05/2022
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Photos taken on 26 August 2022. The monument consists of a large black granite marker at the base of an aircraft on display.
The monument says, "The collapse of China seemed imminent when President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized, by secret executive order, the formation of the American Volunteer Group in April of 1941. It allowed the recruitment of one hundred pilots and two hundred ground support personnel from the army air corps, the navy and marine corps to resign from military service and sign up for one year for the purpose of keeping open china's life line, the Burma Road.
The group was undergoing training under Claire l. Chennault at Toungoo, Burma, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. One squadron was sent to rangoon to join with the RAF, and the other two squadrons were moved to headquarters in Kunming, China.
From the first combat action against the imperial Japanese army air force at Kunming, China on December 20, 1941, until the American volunteer group was disbanded on July 4, 1942, the Flying Tigers had a remarkable air combat record and inflicted heavy losses on the enemy."
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