What is the origin of the name “Hells Angels”?
From the Hells Angels Motorcycleclub website. The beginning of Hells Angels Motorcycleclub On March the 17th. 1948 the first Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was founded in the Fontana/San Bernardino area in the United States of America. To answer the question of lineage between HAMC and a military organization is that Arvid Olsen, “Flying Tigers” Hell’s Angels squadron gave the idea of the name to the actual founders of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, in Fontana, California. The selection of our colors, red on white, is a result of the association of Olsen with the HAMC founders, like the insignia of the 3PS “Hell’s Angels”. The insignia of the HAMC, our copyrighted Deathshead can also be traced to two variant insignia designs, the 85th Fighter Squadron and the 552nd Medium Bomber Squadron. Frank Sadliek, past president of the San Francisco Chapter, HAMC, designed the official “Deathshead” insignia. Arvid Olsen died 16 May 1974 in Point Clear, Alabama. The myth and legends surrounding t
