The Flying Tiger: The True Story of General Claire Chennault and the U.S. 14th Air Force in China PDF
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T F T HE LYING IGER T F T HE LYING IGER The True Story of General Claire Chennault and the U.S. 14th Air Force in China J S ACK AMSON LYONS PRESS Guilford, Connecticut An imprint of Globe Pequot Press Copyright © 1987, 2005, 2012 by Jack Samson First Lyons Press paperback edition, 2005 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission should be addressed to Globe Pequot Press, Attn: Rights and Permissions Department, P.O. Box 480, Guilford CT 06437. Lyons Press is an imprint of Globe Pequot Press. 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. A 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. T C 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
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