History

April, 1944. Tex Hill has been back in China now for 6 months, leading the 23rd Fighter Squadron. As part

After the entry of the US into war, plans were made to disband the AVG and incorporate them into the

In the early morning of August 3rd, 1938, over 70 Japanese A5M fighters escorting 18 Mitsubishi G3M Bombers (type 96)

After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Thailand surrendered. Chennault feared that the AVG position in Toungoo was too precarious so

While Tex was with Ed Rector and Bert Christman in Norfolk Virginia, they bumped into their squadron commander and were

After Tex Hill served aboard the Saratoga for about a year, he was transferred as part of an experiment to

After graduating high school, Tex attended Texas A&M and then Austin college and graduated in 1938. He then applied for

On a sunny afternoon in June of 2002, my family and I were pulling into a very crowded parking lot