Commander of the Flying Tigers: Claire Lee Chennault
Commander of the Flying Tigers: Claire Lee Chennault
Julian Messner | 1966 | ISBN: N/A | English | 200 pages | PDF | 23 MB
For some time before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, a small band of American pilots were battling Japanese planes over China—a country Japan had already penetrated. Many people called these pilots mercenaries and adventurers. And the same critics ridiculed their leader, Claire Chennault, for his unorthodox beliefs about the importance and the use of aerial combat in modern warfare. But during World War II Chennault and his Flying Tigers earned the respect of everyone, with some of the most amazing exploits ever performed by men in the sky. This biography of Chennault reveals the human story of the man behind the legend he created, and at the same time traces the history of aviation as it developed during his lifetime.