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Pappy, pugnacious ex-wrestler and father of three children back in Washington state, had been racking up his score since Flying Tiger days under Claire Chennault. In China he had downed six Jap bombers. In the South Pacific since last summer he had become not only the hottest U.S. fighter pilot but the chief of one of the hottest U.S. fighter squadrons...
Sirs: "It is Claire Chennault's face that stops a man . ." (TIME...
...Marshal Peirse's deputy, studious Major General George E. Stratemeyer, was Chief of Staff for General "Hap" Arnold before going to field duty in India last summer. There General Stratemeyer commanded both Brigadier General Howard C. Davidson's Tenth Air Force (India) and Chennault's famed Fourteenth (China...
Last week U.S. unity seemed to have reached its top. It was announced that in November Chennault's Liberators had flown down across the Himalayas into India, teamed up with Tenth Air Force heavies and set out all together for two blistering so-plane raids on Rangoon...
...officers, the Navy's Admiral King with six, Air Forces General Hap Arnold with eleven. For the Service Forces, Lieut. General Brehon Somervell brought a staff of nine. Army, Navy, Air had separate groups. General Eisenhower came up from Algiers; Lieut. General Stilwell and Major General Chennault flew in from China...