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...other correspondent alive (he was with him on that long, nerve-racking, bug-bitten trek out of Burma into India)-and he can also tell you about the personal characteristics of most of the American flyers in China, from the youngest pilot to cribbage-playing Brigadier General Claire Chennault and his Flying Tiger mascot-dachshund...
Part of the trouble was the traditional conflict between airman and ground officer: Brigadier General Claire Lee Chennault, brilliant, unorthodox genius of the world's smallest fighting air force, had fallen out with his commander, Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell Jr., homely infantryman hero of the 1942 retreat from Burma...
...there was more trouble. Chennault was also at loggerheads with his Air Forces superior, bemedaled, autocratic Brigadier General Clayton L. Bissell, World War I hero and commander of the Tenth Air Force, whose headquarters are in India. Both feuds were connected, because Bissell is also Stilwell's executive in the Far East. The Army last week was anxiously trying to straighten out the row between these three seasoned soldiers. Airmen hopefully predicted that there would be a shake-up that would leave Chennault in command of a separate China Air Force...
Simple Row. Chennault, worker of tactical and strategic miracles with no more than a faint start of an air force, is an airman, through & through. Probably the Air Forces' most original thinker, he has chosen the unorthodox ways of soldiering and fighting that airmen love, and they have worked. In the last five months Chennault's pilots have destroyed 300-400 planes with a loss of eight pilots, fewer than 20 planes. China's debt to him and his American Volunteer Group is that, with the help of China's army, they saved Chungking, later saved...
...General Chennault's Air Task Force, based in China's Yünnan Province, worked hard all week. Having won control of the air over Yünnanyi, most advanced Jap base inside southwest China, the flyers hit Lashio four times to try to jam the railhead through which supplies flow to the Japs' Salween front. For the first time they jumped on Japanese convoys on the Burma Road in broad daylight, hitting oil dumps in the junction town of Mingmao twice and catching trucks dispersed under trees. They blew up a railroad bridge south of Mandalay...