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Gasdick, Joseph

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1941

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Color film taken by American Volunteer Group (AVG) Crew Chief Joe Gasdick (no sound). The footage, dated circa 1941, documents the training and flight activities of the American Volunteer Group (AVG) "Flying Tigers," servicemen organized by the U.S. Government to aid in the defense of China during the Second Sino-Japanese war.

Time-stamped scene list: 00:20 Chinese women and residential area. 00:50 Airplane under a net in a repair area at Kunming airfield. 01:40 Chinese soldier. Residential area. Horses carrying a load. 02:50 Chinese funeral procession. 03:55 Chinese construction workers. Farmers pounding rice. An old Chinese woman. 04:50 Camouflaged planes and P-40s at Kunming repair area. Ground crew working on P-40. 05:50 AVG Kunming hostel #2. AVG dining room.0 6:30 Agricultural field. Water buffalo carriage. Working horses. 07:20 Red Cross sign with a bullet hole. 07:40 Train. 07:50 P-40s #4, #47, #24 and others taking off from Kunming airfield. 08:25 Busy street in a Chinese town. 08:40 P-40s #47, #34 and others taking off from Kunming airfield. Six P-40s flying in the sky. 09:20 An AVG pilot in cockpit of P-40. Shilling gets in P-40 #97, takes off and does acrobat flight. 10:45 A shot from inside airplane moving down runway in Kunming. 10:55 Farmers carrying water. 11:15 Practicing Chinese soldiers. 12:10 P-40 being repaired. Damaged building and crashed plane. 13:00 Flying biplane. Crashed P-40 #18. Dummy P-40 lined up. P-40 under a net. Flying biplane.

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