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[AVIATION]. WHELAN, Russell. The Flying Tigers. The Story of the American Volunteer Group. Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., [1944]. 8vo. Publisher’s gray cloth, front board stamped in blue and red, spine lettered in blue (some wear to spine, some rubbing, soiling to boards, text a bit toned); publisher’s printed dust jacket (price-clipped, several tape repairs to verso, worn, chipped, with several tears). Early edition, SIGNED BY 17 MEMBERS OF THIS LEGENDARY SQUADRON OF THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEER GROUP OF THE CHINESE AIR FORCE. From the front flap: “The statistics are so amazing you find yourself checking them again and again: In a little more than six months, some 70 American fliers with at not time more than 55 planes shot down 286 Japanese planes officially recorded, with at least that many more downed but not credited for lack of witnesses.” Fliers who have signed include Tex Hill, Dick Rossi, Eric Schilling, Charlie Mott (in the book he is marked as Missing in Action as he was a POW in Burma until 1945), James H. Howard, Ed Rector, Robert (Buster) Keeton, Rich Richardson, Parker S. Dupouy, Ken Jernstedt, Charlie Bond, Chuck Engle, Peter Wright, Joe Rosbert, Ed Stiles, Leo J. Schramm, Rody Rodewald.