The A.V.G. loll on one of their Flying Tigers on their airfield at Kunming, the main air base from which they flew against the Japs coming up the Burma Road. Officer in summer khaki on the wing is Paymaster G. Paxton. The plane is a P-40 Tomahawk. When photographer George Rodger reached the A.V.G. in April, the original P-40 Tomahawks had recently been reinforced by the faster and more heavily gunned P-40E Kittyhawk. Strafing Jpn columns with the six .50 cal. guns of the Kittyhawk was a deli
