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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Lyons Pr, 2005
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- Titel
- The Flying Tiger: The True Story of General Claire Chennault and the U.S. 14th Air Force in China
- Autor
- Samson, Jack
- Verlag
- Lyons Pr
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2005
- Zustand
- Good
- Einband
- Softcover
- Sprache
- Englisch
- ISBN-10
- 1592287115
- ISBN-13
- 9781592287116
When a sickly, half-deaf, forty-seven-year-old retired U.S. Army Air Corps Captain went to China in 1937 to survey Chiang Kai-sheks Chinese Air Force, little did the world know this
would be the man to stem the Japanese tide in the Far East. Almost every military expert predicted his handful of pilots of the American Volunteer Group would not last three weeks. Yet in seven months in 1942, the AVG, fighting a rear-guard action over Burma, China, Thailand, and French Indonesia, destroyed a confirmed 199 planes, with another 153 probables as well. They did this losing only four pilots and twelve P-40s in air combat and
sixty-one on the ground.
Now, in this definitive biography of General Claire Chennault, veteran reporter Jack Samson offers a rare and fascinating inside look at this legendary man behind the Flying Tigers.
Unlike Eisenhower and MacArthur, Chennault was no saintly military leader. He was a chain-smoking, bourbon-drinking, womanizing man. He was the kind of leader his men knew could and did fly better than they--in any kind of plane. But first and last, he was a fighter--a tough, single-minded warrior who was never confused by who the enemy was in Asia, regardless of what the State Department thought.
Following Chennault from this command of the Fourteenth U.S. Army Air Force during World War II to the part of his life that is not well known--the intriguing postwar years in China and Formosa, where his Civilian Air Transport (CAT) became the scourge of the Red Chinese--The Flying Tiger is an extraordinary portrait of one of Americas great military commanders.
would be the man to stem the Japanese tide in the Far East. Almost every military expert predicted his handful of pilots of the American Volunteer Group would not last three weeks. Yet in seven months in 1942, the AVG, fighting a rear-guard action over Burma, China, Thailand, and French Indonesia, destroyed a confirmed 199 planes, with another 153 probables as well. They did this losing only four pilots and twelve P-40s in air combat and
sixty-one on the ground.
Now, in this definitive biography of General Claire Chennault, veteran reporter Jack Samson offers a rare and fascinating inside look at this legendary man behind the Flying Tigers.
Unlike Eisenhower and MacArthur, Chennault was no saintly military leader. He was a chain-smoking, bourbon-drinking, womanizing man. He was the kind of leader his men knew could and did fly better than they--in any kind of plane. But first and last, he was a fighter--a tough, single-minded warrior who was never confused by who the enemy was in Asia, regardless of what the State Department thought.
Following Chennault from this command of the Fourteenth U.S. Army Air Force during World War II to the part of his life that is not well known--the intriguing postwar years in China and Formosa, where his Civilian Air Transport (CAT) became the scourge of the Red Chinese--The Flying Tiger is an extraordinary portrait of one of Americas great military commanders.
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Jack Samson, longtime CBS editor and wire-service foreign correspondent, is the author of fifteen previous books. He served with Chennaults Fourteenth U.S. Army Air Force in China as a navigator and later returned to Asia, where he worked in public relations for the generals civilian airline, CAT. A private pilot, Samson is official historian of the Fourteenth U.S. Army Air Force Association. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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