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1. John Blackburn is seen to the left of his brother Stanley Blackburn while both young men were cadets at the New Mexico Military Institute. | ||||||||
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2.AVG Wing Man John E. Blackburn III, photograph during United State Army Air Corps service. This photograph was taken shortly before Blackburn was assigned to duties in China as an instructor to the Chinese Air Force. | ||||||||
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3. John Blackburn is pictured in Kunming in the early spring of 1942. | ||||||||
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4. Six Flying Tigers, including John Blackburn are seen standing in front of one of their P-40 Tomahawk fighters in Rangoon, Burma in late February 1942. Seen in the photograph are Robert Neal, Robert Smith, William McGarry, Charles Bond, George Burgard., Blackburn is standing second on the right. | ||||||||
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5. The funeral of John Blackburn, Kunming, China. Following the War, Blackburn’s body was moved to an American military cemetery in Hawaii. Eventually, Blaclburn’s body was returned to his home town of Amarillo, Texas, where he was laid to rest along side other members of the Blackburn family. | ||||||||
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6. This painting of John Blackburn was part of a series of paintings commissioned by William Pawley the former president of CAMO, at the end of the Second World War that honored all the Flying Tiger pilots who lost their lives while in serving in the American Volunteer Group. | ||||||||
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Members of the China Association for Expedition and personnel from the
China Aviation Museum are photographed on Lake Dianchi, during the 1998
search of Lake Dianchi for Blackburn’s lost aircraft. |
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8. Yan Jiang Zheng, Chairman of the China Association for Expedition is seen operating a portable dredging unit during the 1998 search of Lake Dianchi. | ||||||||
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and 9b. Mr. Yan Jiangzheng, the Executive Director of the China Association for Expedition is seen interviewing Kunming residents who either witnessed the April 1942 crash of John Blackburn’s P-40 fighter into Lake Dianchi, or participated in the underwater recovery of Blackburn’s body from the crashed aircraft. Mr. Yan and fellow members of the China Association for Expedition were able to identify and interview a number of witnesses to the events of the April 1942 loss of John Blackburn and his aircraft, in December 2000. |
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