Fighting Filipino pilot. Manila.
Title
Fighting Filipino pilot. Manila.
Subject
Villamor, Jesus A., 1914-1971
Description
Captain Jesus Villamor, commanding officer of the 6th Pursuit Squadron, Philippine Army Air Corps, is pictured getting out of plane after returning from a flight to Batangas Field. The youth, who leads a daredevil squadron of six Filipino pilots in erstwhile training planes who took on fifty-four Japanese air raiders over Batangas and shot down two, said he "got so mad" he forgot to be scared. One of the Filipino pilots was wounded and parachuted to safety and another was killed, Captain Villamor said, when seven Japanese planes "rode him down." He is the son of the late associate justice of the Philippine Supreme Court and trained as a pilot at Randolph and Kelly Fields
Creator
The Library of Congress
Source
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Publisher
Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library
Date
1943 Mar.
Contributor
Uploaded to Omeka by student, Fall 2016.
Relation
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/oem2002008078/PP/
Format
JPEG
Language
English
Type
Photograph
Identifier
Fighting Filipino Pilot of World War II
Collection
Citation
The Library of Congress, “Fighting Filipino pilot. Manila.,” UNO Digital Humanities Projects, accessed March 28, 2024, https://unodigitalhumanitiesprojects.omeka.net/items/show/229.