Charlie Mott interview (video and transcript, 5 of 9), 1991

Boring, Frank (interviewer)

Christopher, Frank (director)

Fei Hu Films

Vance Locke son of Robt. P.(Burma Bob) Locke Descanso California.

Interview of Charles Mott by filmmaker Frank Boring for the documentary, Fei Hu: The Story of the Flying Tigers. Charles Mott was a Flight Leader for the American Volunteer Group (AVG) 2nd Squadron "Panda Bears." Recruited from the U.S. Navy, where he served three years as a Dive Bomber pilot, he joined the AVG in 1941. During a mission over Thailand, he was shot down by ground fire and captured, severely wounded. He was placed in a POW camp along the River Kwai railway for 3 1/2 years and repatriated at the end of the war. He was the sole survivor of the four AVG pilots captured. In this tape, Mott discusses his appreciation for the Chinese mechanics he worked alongside in the AVG and how Pearl Harbor informed the AVG's work in the days that followed.

At the AVG reunion in 1963 we met with Dr. James Turpin from Coronado who ran an NGO medical missionary outfit called Project Concern. He said that Project wished to expand back into South East Asia and Vietnam. The entire Locke family was in Vietnam from 1963 to 1970.

1991-05-16

First AVG Réunion we as children were old enough to attend for us Lockes, was Ojai in 1957 Jane Mansfield was miss Flying Tiger and the last year General Chennault was alive.

Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives.

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