Chennault and the Flying Tigers

The incredible story of the daring and heroic American pilots known as “The Flying Tigers” – and of the famous American General, Claire Lee Chennault (1893-1958), whose genius formed these fighters into the most formidable military groups in American aviation history – is told in this stirring book by his beautiful young widow. Only Anna Chennault could have told this story. CHENNAULT AND THE FLYING TIGERS flows out of her experience as a skilled journalist and from the many personal records the General kept – his diary, memoirs and personal papers and letters, the official documents of the American Volunteer Group, the China Air Task Force and the Fourteenth Air Force. Here, for a whole new generation of Americans, is the story of one of the wildest, bravest and most remarkable endeavors – the defense of China against the overwhelming active Japanese air arm by the American Volunteer Group which, only July 4, 1942, became the China Air Task Force which in turn became, on March 10, 1943, the Fourteenth Air Force. Under the inspiring leadership of the man who later became the author’s husband, these organizations – The Flying Tigers of China – between December 20, 1941, and V-J Day, lost only 500 airplanes from all combat causes while destroying 2,600 enemy planes and probably destroying 1,500 more. Anna Chennault gives full play to these heroic men and their exploits, on and off duty, revealing many intimate details of their lives and their antics, telling stories both humorous and tragic. To understand fully what kind of a man Chennault was, and the forces that shaped his genius, the author traces his life from an early boyhood of fishing and hunting in the Louisiana bayou wilderness, through his young manhood and the exciting years in the early days of aviation, to the completion of his “Three Miracles” – The A.V.G., the 14th Air Force, and the formation of CAT – the Civil Air Transport lines.

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