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...British flyers won shoestring control of the air over Burma last week. It was not decisive, for the Japanese could, if necessary, double their air power in Burma overnight-something that General Sir Archibald Wavell and Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault each wished that he could...
...been decorated (Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross) for more than 200 breathtaking reconnaissance flights over Burma, Siam, Indo-China and Occupied China. He had participated in every major campaign in China, had shot down six Jap planes; he had stayed on to help knowing Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault train the China Air Task Force...
Said General Chennault: "Schiel was outstanding. He had seen more of Asia than any other flyer of the AVG." His friends buried him in an ancient Chinese cemetery near Kunming...
...thought of General Chennault's Christmas greeting to Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kaishek: "On this sixth wartime Christmas the China Air Task Force joins me in extending to Your Excellencies and our comrades in arms, the Chinese Army, our sincerest holiday greetings at this period of the year when all men gather to do honor to the Prince of Peace. The fighters and bombers of the American Air Forces in China pledge themselves in His name to keep faith and comradeship until they have brought peace to this land and to all free men everywhere...
SLIGHT TIME OVERSIGHT IDENTIFIED HOME OF EVERY CREWMAN IN "CHENNAULT'S PAPPY" [TIME, NOV. 30] EXCEPT CAPTAIN ROBERT C. WILLIAMS, PILOT FROM FLINT. WE ARE AS PROUD OF BOB AS WE ARE OF OUR EXCELLENT WAR GOODS. HOWEVER, IF CHOICE MUST BE MADE, WE WOULD PREFER OUR FIGHTERS AND OUR ENEMIES, RATHER THAN TIME, TO HAVE REASON TO REMEMBER FLINT...