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...resigned a do-nothing job in the Navy in August 1941, but I did so to join the staff of the American Volunteer Group. . . . My service in the A.V.G. under General Chennault was the hardest and the most interesting work I have ever done. In late November 1941, General Chennault sent me to Manila to negotiate with General MacArthur. ... On my way back to Burma, I was caught in Hong Kong by the outbreak of war. During the fighting there, I placed myself under the command of our military observer, Colonel Reynolds Condon. When the surrender came, Colonel Condon instructed...
When repatriated, I attempted to rejoin General Chennault from Lourenco Marques, but was forbidden to leave the exchange ship by Secretary Hull. I have been trying to rejoin him ever since, and when my application for a commission was at first rejected by the Army, I accepted service in China as a civilian official only to make myself useful to him in the best way I could. You will understand, therefore, that a certain thread of consistency connects the various phases through which I have passed...
...this drive was perfectly plain. In fact, Tokyo announced it to the world itself. Over in China, said Tokyo, Claire Chennault was readying an air attack on the mainland of Japan. It could be stopped only by cutting the railroad. Whatever the Jap's estimate of Chennault's intentions was worth, his estimate of the importance of the Bengal-Assam railway was exaggerated...
...Railway and Chennault. Over that road, flow all the supplies that get into China from the outside world, including fuel for Claire Chennault's tiny but vastly effective Fourteenth Air Force. The supplies are unloaded at the Assam terminus, transshipped to aircraft and whisked over the Hump, the Allies' aerial makeshift for the lost Burma road...
...China, Claire Chennault said nothing for publication. Pitcher Chennault was shown at baseball with his deputy and battery mate, Brigadier General Edgar ("Buzz") Glenn, between raids constantly carried out by the Fourteenth on Japanese fields, troop installations, shipping off the South China coast. But if the railway should be out, there would be little left to Chennault & Co. but baseball, until a new supply route should be opened...