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...Major General Claire Chennault...
China said farewell to the man who had fought for her so long with so little. Major General Claire L. Chennault, genius of the Flying Tigers and commander of the Fourteenth Air Force, was going home...
...Chennault, whose tactical genius had already set a mark for other air commanders to shoot at, was recalled to active duty with the U.S. Army, given command of the Fourteenth Air Force, with permission to continue his activities as an adviser to the Chinese Government...
...last week the Fourteenth had grown so powerful that Chennault was able to declare that "the Japanese are now beaten in the air in China," that the Fourteenth's only remaining job was to support Chinese ground troops...
...Chennault's resignation came on the heels of a China air force shakeup. Two days before, Lieut. General George E. Stratemeyer, former chief of the Eastern Air Command in India, had been named commanding general of all U.S. air forces in China. Under him would be both the Fourteenth and the Tenth Airmen suspected that that was the real reason for Claire Chennault's resignation: he could conclude that his superiors regarded him as good enough to build up the China air force and to fight in it in the lean days but not good enough to command...