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02132aam a22003734a 4500 001 39507C44E25C11E8B947250B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20181107010235 008 110509s2012 ctuaf b 001 0beng 010 $a 2011019218 020 $a 0762772832 020 $a 9780762772834 035 $a (OCoLC)726620680 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d BDX $d YDXCP $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d AU@ $d OCLCQ $d OCL $d OCLCA $d IWB $d SILO 043 $a a-cc--- $a a-cc--- 100 1 $a Samson, Jack. 245 14 $a The flying tiger : $b the true story of General Claire Chennault and the U.S. 14th Air Force in China / $c Jack Samson. 246 30 $a True story of General Claire Chennault and the U.S. 14th Air Force in China. 260 $a Guilford, Conn. : $b Lyons Press, $c ©2012. 300 $a xvii, 470 pages, [8] pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 500 $a Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1987. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 432-441) and index. 520 $a A definitive biography of the legendary leader of the Flying Tigers and the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force in China. When a sickly, half-deaf, forty-seven-year-old retired U.S. Army Air Corps Captain went to China in 1937 to survey Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Air Force, little did the world know this would be the man to stem the Japanese tide in the Far East. Almost every military expert predicted his handful of pilots of the American Volunteer Group would not last three weeks. 600 10 $a Chennault, Claire Lee, $d 1893-1958. 650 0 $a Generals $z United States $v Biography. 610 10 $a China. $b American Volunteer Group $b American Volunteer Group $v Biography. 610 10 $a United States. $b China Air Task Force $b China Air Task Force $v Biography. 610 10 $a United States. $b Air Force, 14th $b Air Force, 14th $v Biography. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z China. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Aerial operations, American. 941 $a 2 952 $l SHPC094 $d 20190517010739.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20181107051528.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=39507C44E25C11E8B947250B97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search