A March 1945 magazine feature, 'China Falcons,' celebrates the unarmed photo-reconnaissance pilots of the Fourteenth Air Force in China, whose intelligence-gathering flights over Japanese-held territory — from Manchuria to the Philippines to the Japanese home islands — provided the targeting information behind many B-29 bombing strikes. The article traces the squadron's roots to Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers and an ingeniously improvised camera-equipped P-40 flown in the early days of the China war. Project: 218374