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Chennaults Flying Tigers by Robert Taylor. P40 Tomahawks of the American Volunteer Group fought against the Japanese air force in the skies over Indo-China during World War 2 and became one of the most successful and famous fighter units of all time. Strangled by the Japanese blockade of its sea ports, and with supplies from Russia diverted to combat Hitler's invasion, China was left with one lifeline for vital supplies from the outside world: a treacherous unpaved track hacked through mountain terrain linking the port of Rangoon with the city of Kumming, in South West China - it was the infamous Burma Road. With the Impirial Japanese air force hell-bent on destroying Chinas last supply link, opposition had almost evaporated but for a tiny air force of American volunteers led by the indomitable figure of Claire Chennault. Formed in early 1941, months before Pearl Harbor, a rag-tag bunch of 100 recruited flyers supported by 200 ground personnel, known as the American Volunteer Group came together to stand alone against th......... More Text... Item Code : AX0001 Chennaults Flying Tigers by Robert Taylor. - Editions Available TYPE DESCRIPTION SIZE SIGNATURES OFFERS PRICE PURCHASING PRINT Signed limited edition of 1250 prints. Full Item Details Paper size 33 inches x 25 inches (84cm x 64cm) Neale, Bob Smith, Robert T Hill, Tex Older, Charles Rector, Ed Rossi, Dick Shilling, Erik + Artist : Robert Taylor SOLD OUT NOT AVAILABLE

Flying Tiger by Nicolas Trudgian. Part of a small print series of six American WW2 aircraft, signed by some of the great American pilots, some no longer with us. Cranston Fine Arts have purchased the last remaining stocks of this aviation series. Item Code : DHM2651 Flying Tiger by Nicolas Trudgian. - Editions Available TYPE DESCRIPTION SIZE SIGNATURES OFFERS PRICE PURCHASING PRINT Signed limited edition of 450 prints. Full Item Details Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm) Older, Charles + Artist : Nicolas Trudgian £65.00 ARTIST PROOF Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. (Older) Full Item Details Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm) Older, Charles + Artist : Nicolas Trudgian £75.00 ARTIST PROOF Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. (Hill) Full Item Details Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm) Hill, Tex + Artist : Nicolas Trudgian £75.00 ARTIST PROOF Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. (Hill / Older) Full Item Details Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm) Older, Charles Hill, Tex + Artist : Nicolas Trudgian £85.00 ARTIST PROOF Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. (Bond) Full Item Details Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm) Bond, Charles R + Artist : Nicolas Trudgian £75.00 PRINT Signed limited edition of 450 prints. (Hill) Full Item Details Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm) Hill, Tex + Artist : Nicolas Trudgian £65.00 PRINT Signed limited edition of 250 prints. (Hill / Older) Full Item Details Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm) Hill, Tex Older, Charles + Artist : Nicolas Trudgian £75.00 PRINT Signed limited edition of 450 prints. (Bond) Full Item Details Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm) Bond, Charles R + Artist : Nicolas Trudgian £65.00

Flying Tigers by Stan Stokes. Claire Chennault retired from the USAAF in 1937. Chennault had been an outspoken supporter of advanced fighter aircraft, but was at odds with many of his superiors who favored development of bombers. Chennault went to China to assist Chiang-Kai-shek in resurrecting the Chinese Air Force. In 1941 President Roosevelt authorized a plan to allow American servicemen to volunteer for a one-year duty assignment in China as members of Chennaults American Volunteer Group. 100 Curtis P-40s were rerouted from the UK to Burma. A like number of pilots and a few hundred support personnel filtered into the group from various branches of the service. The AVG engaged the Japanese in combat from late 1941 through mid-1942. Despite being greatly outnumbered, and facing critical shortages of supplies and spare parts, the AVGs official victory tally included 299 aircraft shot down and another 240 destroyed on the ground. The Flying Tigers have a special place in the hearts of aviation history enthusiasts.......... More Text... Item Code : STK0163 Flying Tigers by Stan Stokes. - Editions Available TYPE DESCRIPTION SIZE SIGNATURES OFFERS PRICE PURCHASING PRINT Signed limited edition of 1500 prints, signed by 24 AVG Flying Tiger pilots, and the artist. Full Item Details Size 27 inches x 20 inches (69cm x 51cm) Artist : Stan Stokes £414.00

Sayonara Sally by Stan Stokes. Claire L. Chennault retired in 1937 and began a second career in China where he set up a number of flying schools and airfields. A personal friend of Chiang Kai-shek Chennault was asked to organize a unit of experienced American combat pilots to help fight the Japanese. Chennault sent recruiters to American military installations and was able to organize the American Volunteer Group or AVG by late 1941. The group later became better known as the Flying Tigers, and their distinctive shark-mouthed P-40s became a well-recognized symbol. There were three AVG squadron; the Adam and Eves, the Panda Bears, and the Hells Angels. On December 23, 1941 sixty Sally heavy bombers of the 60th , 62nd , and 68th Sentai based at Bangkok and Phnom Penh were supposed to rendezvous over Bangkok and head to Rangoon for a bombing raid. The three units failed to join up as planned and they also failed to rendezvous with their fighter escorts for the mission. As the sixty aircraft approached Rangoon they wer......... More Text... Item Code : STK0168 Sayonara Sally by Stan Stokes. - Editions Available TYPE DESCRIPTION SIZE SIGNATURES OFFERS PRICE PURCHASING PRINT Signed limited edition of 500 prints, signed by all the surviving AVG pilots of the 3rd Pursuit Sqn, and the artist. Full Item Details Size 22 inches x 18 inches (56cm x 46cm) Artist : Stan Stokes £124.00

Tiger Fire by Nicolas Trudgian. In early 1941, many months before Pearl Harbor, an irrepressible bunch of American fighter pilots, together with 200 ground crew, came together and stood alone against the might of the Imperial Japanese Air Force. Under the indomitable command of General Claire Chennault, their task was to keep the vital road link open between the port of Rangoon and the city of Kunming in South West China. A treacherous unpaved track, hacked through mountain terrain and known as the infamous Burma Road, was the only lifeline for supplies into China from the outside world. With the Japanese hell-bent on its destruction, the Flying Tigers were all that stood between defeat and survival. With little support from home, and almost without replacement aircraft or spares, the P-40 Tomahawk pilots of the American Volunteer Group - the AVG - became the scourge of the Japanese Air Force and heroes to the people of China. In a six month period of combat, with no more than 50 or 60 serviceable aircraft at anyo......... More Text... Item Code : DHM2664 Tiger Fire by Nicolas Trudgian. - Editions Available TYPE DESCRIPTION SIZE SIGNATURES OFFERS PRICE PURCHASING PRINT Signed limited edition of 1000 prints. Full Item Details Paper size 35 inches x 24 inches (88cm x 61cm) Hill, Tex Older, Charles Rossi, Dick + Artist : Nicolas Trudgian £125 Off! Now : £315.00 PRINT Limited edition of 125 publishers proofs. Full Item Details Paper size 35 inches x 24 inches (88cm x 61cm) Hill, Tex Older, Charles Rossi, Dick + Artist : Nicolas Trudgian £420.00

Pappys P-40 by Stan Stokes. Item Code : STK0165 Pappys P-40 by Stan Stokes. - Editions Available TYPE DESCRIPTION SIZE SIGNATURES OFFERS PRICE PURCHASING PRINT Signed limited edition of 950 prints, signed by Pappy Boyington, and the artist. Full Item Details Size 27 inches x 20 inches (69cm x 51cm) Boyington, Pappy + Artist : Stan Stokes £449.00

Tigers at Rest by Stan Stokes.  Item Code : STK0202 Tigers at Rest by Stan Stokes.  - Editions Available TYPE DESCRIPTION SIZE SIGNATURES OFFERS PRICE PURCHASING PRINT Signed limited edition of 300 giclee art prints. Full Item Details Image size 21 inches x 14 inches (53cm x 36cm) Artist : Stan Stokes £109.00 GICLEE CANVAS Limited edition of 300 giclee canvas prints. Full Item Details Size 45 inches x 30 inches (114cm x 76cm) none £624.00 GICLEE CANVAS Limited edition of 300 giclee canvas prints. Full Item Details Size 36 inches x 24 inches (91cm x 61cm) none £484.00 GICLEE CANVAS Limited edition of 300 giclee canvas prints. Full Item Details Size 27 inches x 18 inches (69cm x 46cm) none £294.00

Flying Tigers and Buffalos by Stan Stokes. Claire Chennaults American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers) continue to capture the imagination and interest of aviation history buffs more than fifty years after they flew combat missions for the Chinese Air Force. Composed of about ninety pilots and another 200 ground support personnel, the Tigers arrived in China in mid-1941. Flying Curtiss P-40s which had been rerouted from Britain to China, the Tigers flew from December of 1941 until mid-1942. Engaging a numerically superior Japanese force over a very wide front, the AVG was officially credited with downing 299 Japanese aircraft in aerial combat, and an additional 240 aircraft destroyed during ground attack missions. The Flying Tigers slowed the Japanese conquest in China, and caused Japan to focus more resources on this theater of operations than they had planned. Charles R. Bond was Vice Squadron Leader for the AVGs 1 Pursuit Squadron, the Adam and Eves. Bond was born in Dallas, Texas in 1915. He joined the Texas National Guard......... More Text... Item Code : STK0164 Flying Tigers and Buffalos by Stan Stokes. - Editions Available TYPE DESCRIPTION SIZE SIGNATURES OFFERS PRICE PURCHASING PRINT Signed limited edition of 500 prints. Full Item Details Size 22 inches x 18 inches (56cm x 46cm) Brown, Carl Rosbert, Joe Rossi, Dick Bond, Charles R + Artist : Stan Stokes £124.00

Summer of 42 by John D Shaw. In this superb tribute to one of the most famous fighter units of WWII the serenity of the beautiful Li River is broken as P40 Tomahawks of the AVG Flying Tigers, bearing their famous shark-mouth motif, return to base at Kweilin. Item Code : DHM2633 Summer of 42 by John D Shaw. - Editions Available TYPE DESCRIPTION SIZE SIGNATURES OFFERS PRICE PURCHASING PRINT Signed limited edition of 850 prints. Full Item Details Paper size 39.5 inches x 21 inches (100cm x 53cm) Bond, Charles R Rosbert, Joe Rossi, Dick Vaux, Morgan H Hill, Tex Keeton, Robert B Layher, Robert F Mott, Charles D Wright, Peter Baisden, Charles N Clouthier, Leo Paul Jernstedt, Kenneth A Losonsky, Frank S Poshefko, Joseph Stiles, Edward L Janski, Edwin A + Artist : John D Shaw SOLD OUT NOT AVAILABLE

Tigers Claws by Stan Stokes. Curtiss had been the primary supplier of fighter aircraft to the U.S. Army Air Corps. since its inception, and the company was dismayed when the Army procured the Boeing P-26 Peashooter in 1932. Curtiss responded by hiring Mr. Donovan Berlin, a bright young engineer who was working for Northrop. Donovan developed the Hawk 75, a streamlined, low-wing, monoplane coastal defense fighter. With an enhanced Twin Wasp engine the Hawk 75 evolved into the P-36, which had a brief and fairly undistinguished career with the Air Corps. In 1938 a P-36 was retrofitted with the Allison in-line 12-cylinder, 1150 HP engine, and the P-40 was born. This was the beginning of what would eventually be a production run of more than 13,000 aircraft. Depending on its theater of operation and the particular model, the P-40 was alternatively known as the Tomahawk, the Kittyhawk, or the Warhawk. By mid-1942 P-40s were serving in every major conflict. The aircraft excelled in ground attack missions, but lacked the......... More Text... Item Code : STK0167 Tigers Claws by Stan Stokes. - Editions Available TYPE DESCRIPTION SIZE SIGNATURES OFFERS PRICE PURCHASING PRINT Signed limited edition of 4750 prints. Full Item Details Print size 16 inches x 11.5 inches (41cm x 30cm) Supplied with signed and numbered certificate of authenticity. Artist : Stan Stokes £5 Off! Now : £35.00

Spoiling the Party by Stan Stokes. Claire Chennaults American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers) continues to capture the imagination and interest of aviation history buffs more than fifty years after they flew combat missions for the Chinese Air Force. Composed of about ninety pilots and another 200 ground support personnel, the Tigers arrived in China in mid-1941. Flying Curtiss P-40s that had been rerouted from Britain to China, the Tigers flew from December of 1941 until mid-1942. Engaging a numerically superior Japanese force over a very wide front, the AVG was officially credited with downing 299 Japanese aircraft in aerial combat, and an additional 240 aircraft destroyed during ground attack missions. The Flying Tigers slowed the Japanese conquest in China, and caused Japan to focus more resources on this theater of operations than they had planned. Stan Stokes painting depicts a three-plane raid of a Japanese airstrip near Tak, Thailand. Early in the morning of January 3, 1942, three 2 d Pursuit Squadron (Panda Be......... More Text... Item Code : STK0166 Spoiling the Party by Stan Stokes. - Editions Available TYPE DESCRIPTION SIZE SIGNATURES OFFERS PRICE PURCHASING PRINT Signed limited edition of 500 prints. Full Item Details Size 22 inches x 18 inches (56cm x 46cm) Hill, Tex Rector, Ed Keeton, Robert B Wright, Peter Layher, Robert F Mott, Charles D + Artist : Stan Stokes £124.00