Flying Tigers' history echoes through today's US youth

If a representative of contemporary US internet digital artists could be found, Danny Casale would be one of them.

Casale, also known as "Coolman Coffeedan" on the internet, is a contemporary artist who has traveled back in time to discover emotional resonance in the aviation artists of the 1940s.

In the 1940s, Claire Chennault, a US military aviator who led the Flying Tigers during World War II to help China resist Japanese aggression, had the ground crews paint a row of shark teeth on the noses of their airplanes.