Flying Tiger Ace

Carl Molesworth is a former newspaper and magazine editor now working as a freelance writer and editor. A graduate of the University of Maryland with a BA in English, Molesworth served as an enlisted man in the USAF from 1968 to 1972 before becoming an award-winning journalist for 35 years and then transitioning to full-time book writing. He has been researching and writing about fighter operations in World War II for nearly 30 years. His 14 previous titles include three books in Osprey’s Aircraft of the Aces series, three in the Aviation Elite Units series and two in the Duel series. He is best known for his writing about the China-Burma-India theatre and the Curtiss P-40 fighter. He lives in Washington, USA.

Preface
Introduction
Part One: The Making of a Man
1 “Everything anyone would ever want to be”
2 “Justifiable homicide”
3 “Three of us passed out of 47”
Part Two: A Grand Experiment – the AVG
4 “Day after day passed by uneventfully”
5 “Don’t be too much concerned, will you?”
6 “I dove and attacked them head-on”
7 “This is no time to take a runout”
8 “A pretty good day’s work”
9 “I might have stayed over there”
Part Three: Back to China
10 “I felt a hit in my engine”
11 “Some scheme afoot in Washington”
12 “Time we stopped fooling around”
13 “Stay in there and try a little harder”
14 “Just one of those Goddamned nights”
15 “The most staggering blow”
Appendix: Chinese place names
Endnotes
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Index