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

Files

8b08327r.jpg

Citation

The Library of Congress, “Fighting Filipino pilot. Manila.,” UNO Digital Humanities Projects, accessed March 28, 2024, https://unodigitalhumanitiesprojects.omeka.net/items/show/229.

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