Chennault's Flying Tigers: A Commemorative History of the American Volunteer Group.

First edition of this detailed and richly illustrated tribute to American Volunteer Group's pivotal role in early World War II air combat. Quarto, original blue boards with an inlay of a flying tiger and Claire Lee Chennault, pictorial and cartographic endpapers, illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Boldly signed on a Flying Tigers bookplate affixed to the verso of the front free endpaper by sixteen members of the Flying Tigers, including: Tex Hill, Ken Jernstedt, Paul J. Greene, Robert T. Smith, Dick Rossi, Erik Shilling, Bob Layher, Ed Rector, twice by Charlie Bond, Robert M. Smith, Edward F. Gallagher, Frank Losonsky, Rolland Richardson, Carl Quick, John Richard Rossi, and Al Kaelin. In fine condition. Rare and desirable.