Fast forward to the 20 th century, when the group known as the Flying Tigers painted the front of one of the top WWII fighter aircraft, the Curtiss P-40, to look like a shark with a gaping mouth.

World War II’s legendary American Volunteer Group, the “Flying Tigers,” made the shark mouth famous ... Udvar-Hazy Center, a Curtiss P-40E wears a shark face but was not a Flying Tiger.