Word: chennault
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program has produced three Chiefs of Staff: Leonard Wood, George Decker and George C. Marshall. Claire Chennault, Curtis LeMay and William Dean, the Korean War hero, were also ROTC-trained. Currently, about one-third of the Army generals are ROTC men, including five major generals who are commanding divisions in Viet Nam; only one division there is headed by a West Pointer. Says Brigadier General Clifford Hannum, head of the Army ROTC: "The worst thing you could do is cause the Army to turn inward for its officers...
When the Flying Tigers' boss, General Claire Chennault, domesticated some war-weary military transports and U.S. fighter pilots following World War II, hardly anyone expected the ragtag operation to last for long. In fact, his CAT (for Civil Air Transport) blossomed into one of the best-run airlines in all of Asia, flying out of Taipei around the Communist perimeter from Seoul to Bangkok. But now, CAT's string seems to have...
Moonlit Pilots. By any reckoning, CAT has had more than one life. Caught in China's civil war, Chennault's outfit snarled Communist timetables of conquest by ferrying soldiers and supplies to the mainland. In the process, CAT became Nationalist China's civilian transport arm and the most shot-at airline in history. When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan, CAT went along. From time to time, its crackerjack pilots moonlighted, accepting such missions as dropping French paratroopers into Dienbienphu...
...Willauer, 55, a hard-muscled Princeton fullback ('28) turned FBI lawyer, World War II China hand and troubleshooting U.S. diplomat in Central America; of a heart attack; in Nantucket, Mass. Whitey Willauer ran the quasi-military China Defense Supplies Inc., feeding fuel and arms to General Claire Chennault's "Flying Tigers," stayed on after the war to help Chennault organize and run Nationalist China's Civil Air Transport Service, "the most shot at civilian airline in history." Later, as U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, he helped quarterback the 1954 revolution that overthrew the pro-Communist regime of Jacobo...
...mean more than the laundry and the restaurant." Li Sr., a British-educated mining engineer who died early this year, built Wah Chang (1960 sales: $35 million) into a major free-world producer of tungsten. Now K. C. Jr., a Swarthmore graduate who flew with General Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force, is out to enhance his company's reputation by intensifying research into atom-age metals. The new emphasis has already produced an important breakthrough in fabrication of superconductors i.e., metals which when chilled to absolute zero lose their resistance to electricity. Wah Chang labs are now making...