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...Claire Chennault-en route to the U.S. (with his Chinese bride of eleven weeks) -on aid to China: "I am going to urge military aid to China at once, and in sufficient volume to stop the Communists. I don't care how much it takes. ... It should be enough to stop the Communists...
General Wei would try to make the mop-up as costly to the Reds as possible, try to gain time for his side to strengthen North China. But Mukden's defenders were short of food, fuel and ammunition. Planes of General Claire Chennault's commercial airline shuttled in & out, evacuating nonessential government workers, carrying sacks of flour on the trip in. Then the flour ran out. The flour planes found a substitute. To Mukden's cold and hungry soldiers last week came planeloads of almost worthless bank notes...
Married. Major General Claire Lee Chennault (ret.), 57, granite-faced old China hand; and Anna Chan, 24, Shanghai newspaperwoman, daughter of a onetime Chinese consul in San Francisco; in Shanghai. Ex-Flying Tiger Boss Chennault, who stayed in China to run the Fourteenth Air Force after the U.S. got into the fight (and now runs a China airline carrying relief supplies), was divorced 17 months ago by his first wife, who had borne him eight children...
Major General Claire Chennault, finding himself being talked up as next Governor of Louisiana, effectively deadpanned: "I'm an honest man; I know nothing about politics...
...brothers had seen more of World War II than most men their ages. Joe resigned from the Navy in August 1941, joined Major General Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers staff as a civilian. Captured by the Japanese at Hong Kong, he posed as a working newsman, got himself repatriated on the Gripsholm. Then he rejoined Chennault as an Air Forces lieu tenant, was made a captain before the war's end. Brother Stewart, turned down by the U.S. Army because of high blood pressure, enlisted in the British Army, fought with the 16th Rifles in Africa and Italy...