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...bitter, uphill fight that must be made in China, Burma and India, the U.S. Army Air Forces will have the finest fighter squadrons in the world. The Army made certain of that last week: it appointed Brigadier General Claire Lee Chennault to boss the fighter command headquartered in Calcutta...
More than any flying man in World War II, 49-year-old Claire Chennault, leathery student of the split-second formation attack, has proved that fighting quality can triumph over numerical odds and superior equipment in the hands of the enemy. The proof is provided by the hottest, most destructive, most deadly accurate air-fighting outfit in the world: China's American Volunteer Group...
...Chennault created the Flying Tigers as Knute Rockne created the great teams of Notre Dame. And in their sphere the Flying Tigers are as fine a team as Notre Dame ever was. Flying U.S.-made P-40s of outmoded design, always short of equipment and ammunition, always hiding out from the Jap while they were on the ground, the A.V.G.s ran up a score never equaled. They knocked better than 300 Japanese planes out of the air, destroyed a hundred or so on the ground, saved many a ground force with its back to the wall. A.V.G...
...races, where he brought crowds up on their hind legs with the formation acrobatics of his Men on the Flying Trapeze, at fields where he was stationed as a flying officer, Claire Chennault never left anything to chance-beyond the possibility of a failing motor when his pursuit ship was on its back. As studious on the ground as he was daredevil in the air, he spent hours planning his acrobatic shows. He taught his youngsters precision flying, discipline, teamwork...
Young A.V.G. pilots, picked from the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, heard the Chennault doctrine endlessly in the training weeks before they first took the air against the Jap in December. Chennault lectured them at blackboards, took them aloft to show them what he wanted: not individual heroes, but everlasting teamwork; no crackpot do-or-die attacks, but slashing, concentrated assaults that would blast the enemy...