The Flying Tiger: The True Story of General Claire Chennault and the U.S. 14th Air Force in China

455 Pages·2012·4.22 MB·English

by  Chennault

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The True Story of General Claire Chennault and the U.S.
14th Air Force in China
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ACK AMSON
LYONS PRESS
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Copyright © 1987, 2005, 2012 by Jack Samson First Lyons Press paperback edition, 2005

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Samson, Jack.
The flying tiger : the true story of General Claire Chennault and the U.S. 14th Air Force in China / by Jack
Samson.
p. cm.
Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1987.
E-ISBN 978-0-7627-9542-0
1. Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958. 2. Generals—United States--Biography. 3. China. K’ung Chün.
American Volunteer Group—Biography. 4. United States. Army Air Forces. China Air Task Force—
Biography. 5. United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 14th—Biography. 6. World War, 1939-1945—
Campaigns—China. 7. World War, 1939-1945—Aerial operations, American. I. Samson, Jack. Chennault.
II. Title. III. Title: True story of General Claire Chennault and the U.S. 14th Air Force in China.
E745.C35S26 2011
358.4'1332092—dc23
[B]
2011019218
To the memory of those young men whose dreams came to an end in
China, Burma, and India.
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CKNOWLEDGMENTS
From China—The Remembered Life by Paul Frillman and Graham Peck.
Copyright © 1968 by Paul Frillman and Graham Peck. Reprinted by permission
of Houghton Mifflin Company.
From Way of a Tiger by Claire L. Chennault, edited by Robert B. Hotz.
Copyright © 1949 by Claire L. Chennault. Reprinted by permission of Anna
Chennault.
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ABLE OF ONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Foreword
Preface
List of Illustrations
About the Author
PART I
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
TEN
ELEVEN
TWELVE
THIRTEEN
FOURTEEN
PART II
FIFTEEN
SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN
EIGHTEEN
NINETEEN
TWENTY
TWENTY-ONE
TWENTY-TWO
TWENTY-THREE
TWENTY-FOUR
TWENTY-FIVE
TWENTY-SIX
PART III
TWENTY-SEVEN
TWENTY-EIGHT
TWENTY-NINE
THIRTY
THIRTY-ONE
THIRTY-TWO
THIRTY-THREE
THIRTY-FOUR
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Photographs