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...guard their empire and train air crews for combat. Freshman flyers go to central China to bomb relatively undefended towns. Then they move by easy stages to Formosa for additional training. In the Canton-Hong Kong area, they next bomb southern China and come up against Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force. The survivors proceed to Thailand and Burma, where they still tangle with the Fourteenth and also with R.A.F. and U.S. airmen based in India. Last stop for those still alive is the Southwest Pacific, where the Japs concentrate their best equipment, their finest airmen...
...Fourteenth Air Force and a U.S. fighter squadron team opened the 1943 baseball season in China. Star performer: 52-year-old Pitcher (and Major General) Claire L. Chennault. Dressed in old cap, undershirt and shorts, he held the fighters in submission, hit three singles and a double, racked up three putouts and an assist, won his game...
Promoted to major general with 22 other brigadiers last week was Claire Lee Chennault, commander of the new Fourteenth Air Force in China. Upped with him was his former commanding officer, Clayton Lawrence Bissell, head of the Tenth Air Force in India...
Last week that order was made public by the War Department. It made Brigadier General Claire Lee Chennault's task force a full-fledged air force. Its designation: the Fourteenth.* The order took the China Air Task Force from under the control of Brigadier General Bissell, commander of the Tenth (India). Thus ended a jarring relationship between him and Chennault which had struck many a dangerous spark of discord (TIME...
...minor part of an unsatisfactory situation remained. As chief of the Fourteenth Air Force, Claire Chennault was still under the command of Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, who is no airman, yet has no other fighting command in China. But airmen could see that the situation was much improved...