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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 wha

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Author

Samson, Jack

Publisher

The Lyon's Press, an imprint of the Globe Pequot Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781592287116

Category

history

Subjects

Military, History, Biography

Rating

4.5 / 5 (97 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14