Otaku ha scritto:
Ecco, la bocca dipinta sul muso degli aerei militari l'ho sempre vista, da quando ero bambino. Qualcuno mi sa dire che significato ha, se ne ha uno, e perchè è così diffusa?
Circa l'origine:
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In describing the genesis of the name "Flying Tigers" and the group's insignia, Chennault says:
"Before I left the United States in the summer of 1941, I asked a few friends in Louisiana to watch the newspapers and send me any clippings about the A.V.G. Now I was being swamped with clippings from stateside newspapers, and my men were astonished to find themselves world famous as the Flying Tigers. The insignia we made famous was by no means original with the A.V.G. Our pilots copied the shark-tooth design on their P-40's noses from a colored illustration in the India Illustrated Weekly depicting an R.A.F. squadron in the Libyan Desert with shark-nose P-40's. Even before that the German Air Force painted shark's teeth on some of its Messerschmitt 210 fighters. With the pointed nose of a liquid cooled engine it was an apt and fearsome design. How the term Flying Tigers was derived from the shark-nosed P-40's I never will know. At any rate we were somewhat surprised to find ourselves billed under that name. It was not until just before the A.V.G. was disbanded that we had any kind of group insignia. At the request of the China Defense Supplies in Washington, the Walt Disney organization in Hollywood designed our insignia consisting of a winged tiger flying through a large V for victory."
Fonte:
http://www.flyingtigersavg.com/tiger1.htmIn Tunisia (RAF):
Luftwaffe:
Circa la diffusione e la successiva fama, bisogna considerare che la macchina propagandistica americana diede, durante il conflitto, una considerevole pubblicità al reparto, anche con l'aiuto di Hollywood:
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A number of feature films have referenced the AVG directly or indirectly, the most famous being Flying Tigers, a 1942 black-and-white film from Republic, starring John Wayne and John Carroll as fighter pilots. Other wartime films with an AVG angle included The Sky's the Limit (1942, starring Fred Astaire); God is My Co-pilot, (1943, with Dennis Morgan as Robert Lee Scott, Raymond Massey as Chennault, and John Ridgely as Tex Hill); Hers to Hold (1943, with Joseph Cotten); and China's Little Devils (1945). Currently, producer John Woo has a major film in the planning stage, apparently emphasizing the cooperation between American and Chinese pilots in fighting the Japanese.
Fonte:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_TigersQuella pellicola, uscita in Italia nel 1950 (col titolo "I falchi di Rangoon"), fu una delle preferite della mia infanzia.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034742/ 
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