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Author:

Buchan, Eugenie, author.

Title:

A few planes for China : the birth of the Flying Tigers / Eugenie Buchan.

Publisher:

ForeEdgean imprint of University Press of New England,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xv, 252 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm

Subject:

China.--American Volunteer Group.--American Volunteer Group.
China.--American Volunteer Group.--American Volunteer Group.
Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Participation, American.
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Aerial operations.
Military operations, Aerial.
Military participation--American.
1937-1945

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Chiang's rotten Air Force -- Burma roads -- Plane aid -- Bruce Leighton's guerrilla air corps -- Business, the Chinese way -- T.V. Soong's mission to Washington -- A few planes for China -- Roosevelt's dilemma -- Bombing Japan -- Tomahawks for China -- Robbing Churchill to pay Chiang -- The private military contractor -- Diplomatic skirmishes -- Reinforcing the Philippines -- Favoring Currie -- The mercenary's contract -- Recruiters and recruited -- The international air force -- Staying on in Burma -- Squabbling over bullets -- AVG summer camp -- The short-term air program for China -- Currie gets in a jam -- Magruder's mission -- Countdown to war -- Epilogue.

ISBN:

1611688663
9781611688665

OCLC:

(OCoLC)982090633

LCCN:

2017018922

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)