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...Chennault's Pappy is just another Boeing Fortress in Britain. Last week, returning from a raid on St.-Nazaire, Chennault's Pappy met a prodding, determined attack by a flight of Focke-Wulf 1903. In a brief burst of hell, one of the crew was killed, three were wounded. The Fortress was struck by ten cannon shells. But plane & crew saw it through to an American airdrome-"surely," said an Irish sergeant who heard the survivors' story, "by the grace...
...when we get over Tokyo I'm gonna look down and say: 'This is from Brigadier General Doolittle, you bastards, and how do you like that?' " When he landed, actually unaware that he had been promoted, Doolittle was met by famed Brigadier General Claire Chennault. Chennault took a star from one of his shoulders, pinned it on Brigadier General Doolittle...
Tokyo Radio complained that Brigadier General Claire Chennault's U.S. flyers in China fought unfairly: they zipped into target areas, dropped their bombs and zipped right out again before the Japs had a chance to fight back. Unless Chennault changed his tactics, said the Japs, they would take stern measures...
Last week they did. For the first time in many weeks, the Japs bombed one of General Chennault's airdromes. The Japs zipped in and zipped right out, but not before they had lost one bomber and three fighters. Chennault reported the U.S. loss: "One Chic Sale shack...
...Chennault himself revealed that his bombers had been in the air for twelve hours on the Linhsi raid. Thus they had not used the most advanced bases open to them. If those bases were utilized, U.S. bombers could, and no doubt would, hit at deeper, more vital sources of Jap power. The Japanese could see that, despite knotty U.S. supply problems, Chennault's forces were in a position to divert Japanese strength from the periphery of conquest to protect the Empire's heart. Looking toward such a time, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's U.S. political adviser, Owen...