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Japan is curled like a cobra at the back door of China. Last week Japan was cobra-quiet, but China and her allies were alert. U.S. and R.A.F. planes harassed the enemy from the air. Brigadier General Claire Chennault's China-based air forces, in their most destructive raid of the war, blasted Haiphong in Indo-China, destroying shipping and munition dumps. Chennault's tactics were brilliant. Lightning-like, he struck around the compass. R.A.F. and U.S. pilots from India attacked Jap airdromes in Thailand and Burma. And in Yunnan, China's southernmost province, the troops...
Into the Marine Corps went Ernest Nelson Chennault, brother of the Flying Tigers' Brigadier General Clair, whose youngest son, Robert Kenneth, 17, went into the Navy last fortnight...
Back in the U.S., Jimmy Stewart volunteered for Brigadier General Chennault's Flying Tigers. He was on his way, at sea, on Dec. 7. So were several Red Cross men. When the ship reached Australia he volunteered for Red Cross service at Port Moresby...
...Works. The boss of Chennault's Pappy is Captain Robert C. ("Willie") Williams, 27, a onetime law student at the University of Michigan. He is a small, inconspicuous man with baby eyes and a drooping, straw-colored mustache. Even in his leather jacket he looks more like an overworked bookkeeper than a combat pilot. His co-pilot is ruddy, burly, deliberate Lieut. Warren ("Junior") George Jr., 22, from Palestine, Tex., once a ham-handed tackle at Houston State Teachers College. Said Junior...
Brigadier General Claire ("Flying Tiger") Chennault's 17-year-old son Robert Kenneth enlisted in the Navy in Jackson, Miss. He has three older brothers in the Air Corps, one in the Navy, one in a defense training school...