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CLAIRE CHENNAULT

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CLAIRE CHENNAULT
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>CLAIRE CHENNAULT </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>American Pilots Give Japanese “Just Deserts”<BR><BR></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>(1890-1958). Air Force Major general who originated the use of paratroopers during World War I. As aviation adviser to the Chinese government under Chaing Kai-Chek, he organized a volunteer aviator corps known as the “Flying Tigers”, famous for defending the Burma Road; commander of China Air Task Force and 14th US Air Force in World War II. <b>War-date</b> TLS “<i>C. L. Chennaultt,</i>” 1p, 4to, Headquarters China Air Task Force, Peishiyi, Sep 13, 1942. To an American supporter, in part, “...<i>Now that the A.V.G. has been disbanded, Squadron Leader Bob Neale is no longer flying in China, but be assured that wherever he is flying that he and the other American pilots will be giving the Japanese their just deserts</i>...” Boldly signed. Normal folds, one of which transverses last name; light general wrinkling; o/w VG.</span></p>