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Tigers in a Cage. But the irking constraint that has shaped Chennault still remains. He is essentially a man of offense, and in China, Allied strategy dictates a mission of defense. His job is to give the Chinese armies air support, to bomb strategic points whenever possible and to keep nibbling at Japanese air strength...
...Fourteenth has grown in the past six months. Where Chennault once had a few score planes, he now has a few-a very few-hundreds. His force includes four-engined, long-range B-24 bombers, P-38 fighters. By the standards of more prosperous theaters, its facilities are few and primitive. But major bases have been leveled, graded and embellished with revetments and repair shops-in view of supply difficulties, a miraculous achievement. Personnel is well housed, clothed, fed. No longer does Chennault himself operate from mud-and-bamboo headquarters, but from a spic-&-span, map-covered, easy-chaired, well...
...doze in the sun, waiting for his bombers' return and planning where next to hit the Japs. Most of the administrative detail is in the hands of neat-minded, hard-working Brigadier General Edgar Glenn, Chief of Staff, an old friend who once (in 1922) served with Lieut. Chennault under one Major Spaatz, now Lieut. General "Tooey" Spaatz of the Mediterranean...
...Chennault has lavished great personal affection and care upon a group of key young men: Colonel Clinton ("Casey") Vincent, 29, commander of the forward echelon; David L. ("Tex&") Hill, formerly an A.V.G. ace, now a lieutenant colonel, commander of the forward fighters; Lieut...
...Central China and along the Salween front of western Yunnan stabs at the tough, resilient Chinese lines. But the Fourteenth has a consolation of sorts: its men know that they are contributing to a much greater show. Every ship sunk and every plane shot down by Chennault's men lessens the Jap potential in more active theaters of war. A young colonel of the Fourteenth commented: "We're a thorn in their side. We aren't serious but we hurt. The Japs are like boxers: if they take off their gloves to dig out the thorn, somebody...