Chuck Owl's video: Video from the Past 35 - David Lee Tex Hill - A Flying Tiger

Video from the Past [35] - David Lee Tex Hill - A Flying Tiger DISCLAIMER: This interview was taken from the "Timeless Voices" series available on the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association). Here is another very interesting interview with him and Susan Yu Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af1AJBC5iS8 Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWOIQpD7-q8 Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpC0Hsf1v-s "Tex" Hill was born in Kwangju, Korea, the son of Presbyterian missionaries, who moved to Texas when he was 6 years old. Tex was recruited in 1941 to serve in the Claire Chennault’s American Volunteer Group (AVG). He reported in July and served as flight leader and then squadron leader of the 2nd Squadron, flying the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk. In his service with the Flying Tigers, he was credited with destroying 10.25 Japanese planes, one of the top aces of that famous unit. After the deactivation of the Flying Tigers in July 1942, Hill was one of only five Flying Tigers to join its USAAF successor, the 23rd Fighter Group. He was promoted to major in the U.S. Army Air Corps, and activated the 75th Fighter Squadron and later to command the 23rd Fighter Group. Before returning to the United States in late 1944, "Tex" Hill and his P-51 Mustang scratched another six Japanese aircraft. It is believed that he was the first to down a Zero with a P-51. Altogether, Hill destroyed 18.25 enemy aircraft.