Digital Collections

You can suggest corrections to the following fields for item J. J. Harrington interview (video and transcript, 1 of 14), 1991.

You can also leave general comments or suggestions in the "comments" section. An administrator will review your contribution.

Thank you for taking the time to improve this site!

Comments

Please describe the nature of this correction, or anything about it that we should know. Thanks!

Can we contact you?

Check this box if it is okay for us to contact you about this correction.

Contributor

An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource

Current data for Contributor

Boring, Frank (interviewer)

Creator

An entity primarily responsible for making the resource

Current data for Creator

Harrington, Jasper J.

Date

A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource

Current data for Date

1991-06-10

Description

An account of the resource

Current data for Description

Interview of J. J. Harrington by filmmaker Frank Boring for the documentary, Fei Hu: The Story of the Flying Tigers. Harrington served in the AVG as Line Chief in the 1st Squadron "Adam and Eve." After experiencing some confusion with his recruitment for AVG and discharge from the U.S. Army Air Forces, he traveled to Rangoon, Burma where he was met by Col. Chennault. He was stationed in Rangoon and Toungoo, Burma and Kunming, China. In this tape, Harrington describes his time working at Moffett Field in California where he converted P-36 fighter planes to P-40's. He also goes into detail on the difficulties pilots experienced at the time and the difficulties he experienced repairing the airplanes in addition to how Lieutenant Merritt and Lieutenant Mangleburg became the first pilots to join the American Volunteer Group.

Source

A related resource from which the described resource is derived

Current data for Source

Fei Hu Films research and production files (RHC-88)

report a problem with this page

Digital Collections

Address

Contact

Social Media