World War II’s legendary American Volunteer Group, the “Flying Tigers,” made the shark mouth famous, but they weren’t the first to paint it on airplanes. During World War I, a few German ...

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.

The image, taken during a recent OCEARCH expedition, shows the shark with its mouth open, revealing row after row of irregular teeth. The moment was captured with a barley underwater camera ...