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With the Tigers over China, 1941-1942

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Use in library	D790 .K564 1999	Off-site

Description

xii, 176 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"In the twelve months centered around the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a diverse group of American and British flyers fought one of the most remarkable air campaigns of WWII While leaders in Washington and London viewed the Far East as a lost cause, pilots including Claire Chennault, "Pappy" Boyington, and Art Donahue bought time for an Allied regrouping against Japan's relentless assault in the China-Burma-India theater."--Jacket.
"Formed by Chennault, also known as the Flying-Tigers, were contract employees working for the Chinese government. As a result, they received virtually no official American recognition for their efforts. The group was known for-their romantic, reckless spirit. They performed remarkably with outdated planes and equipment in ill-repair, were almost always heavily outnumbered in battle, and were seen by outsiders as hard-drinking rebels."--Jacket.
"Jerome Klinkowitz brings together not only the commanders' stories but the often more colorful - and sometimes more accurate - accounts of life and battle by the men who flew these planes and the women who participated on the ground."--Jacket.

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Genre/Form

Personal narratives – American

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Contents

Introduction: The War that Wasn't First -- Tigers over Burma -- At Odds in China -- The RAF's Less than Finest Hour -- An Adventurers' War.

ISBN

LCCN

99013691

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library