{"id":104769,"date":"2020-09-06T11:52:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T15:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=104769"},"modified":"2020-09-06T11:52:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T15:52:22","slug":"chinese-group-attempting-to-raise-sunken-flying-tigers-p-40-off-lakebed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104769","title":{"rendered":"Chinese group attempting to raise sunken Flying Tiger&#8217;s P-40 off lakebed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_104770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104770\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-104770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/160920075842-flying-tigers-fighter-planes-in-flight-color-photo-from-1940s-full-169-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/160920075842-flying-tigers-fighter-planes-in-flight-color-photo-from-1940s-full-169-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/160920075842-flying-tigers-fighter-planes-in-flight-color-photo-from-1940s-full-169-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/160920075842-flying-tigers-fighter-planes-in-flight-color-photo-from-1940s-full-169-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/160920075842-flying-tigers-fighter-planes-in-flight-color-photo-from-1940s-full-169.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flying Tigers in action<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the early days of WWII, before the US officially entered the war, volunteers from the US military went to China to help our then-ally in their fight against the Japanese. Officially, these Americans would be enlisted with the Chinese, but they were flying American aircraft crewed and serviced by Americans. They became known as the Flying Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>From December 1941 until mid-1942, the Flying Tigers brought much needed help to our Chinese allies. At the time, all of their aircraft were outclassed by the Japanese invaders. The arrival of the Americans and their P-40 Warhawks was a boon to the defense of the country.<\/p>\n<p>There is now a group of Chinese outdoor enthusiasts that are attempting to raise the wreck of one of those warbirds from the bottom of a lake.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Curtiss P-40 crashed in 1942 in Dianchi Lake near Kunming, the southwestern city that was the Tigers\u2019 base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope the project of salvaging the P-40 can be a warm current in the cold wave and ease people\u2019s worries about Chinese-U.S. ties,\u201d said Han Bo, chairman of the China Adventure Association, a nongovernment group that promotes outdoor activities and historical monuments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article linked below says that they recovered a shoe insole from the plane, buried in silt. That would make me hopeful that it has been preserved in a low oxygen environment.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to the results of their effort. I don&#8217;t think the recovery of the aircraft will really help China-US relations, so they will probably not get the result they hoped for. With any luck though, another fantastic war machine will be returned to its proper glory.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the King of Battle for the link.<\/p>\n<p>Source;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/chinese-group-plans-recover-ww2-american-fighter-72845848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the early days of WWII, before the US officially entered the war, volunteers from the &hellip; <a title=\"Chinese group attempting to raise sunken Flying Tiger&#8217;s P-40 off lakebed\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104769\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese group attempting to raise sunken Flying Tiger&#8217;s P-40 off lakebed<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,296,406,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-china","category-guest-link","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104772,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104769\/revisions\/104772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}