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...factional squabbling that has been one of the Nationalists' gravest weaknesses. A Whampoa cadet sent by Chiang Kai-shek to study aviation in Moscow in 1927 (before the Nationalists and Communists split), Mao set up his country's first military air academy at Hangchow in 1932, helped Chennault build up the Flying Tigers during the Japanese war, served in the postwar period as chief representative of the Chinese air force abroad. But Mao's pet ambition was thwarted when Chiang made the army's General Chou Chih-jou instead of Mao commander in chief...
...already bulging gallery of family portraits (he has eight children by his first wife), retired Major General Claire Chennault, 60, wartime boss of the Flying Tigers and the Fourteenth Air Force, added one more pose in Oakland, Calif. (see cut), after flying in from Hong Kong. He also offered Californians his opinion that the U.S. "very likely" will become involved in a war with Red China. Then the general installed six-month-old Cynthia Louise ("Butterball") with in-laws and herded second wife Anna and 19-month-old Claire Anna ("Sugar") onto a plane for Washington, where...
When twelve combat veterans of Major General Claire Chennault's famed Flying Tigers sank their savings into an airline in 1945, they were sold on the future of air freight. But, as one Flying Tiger Line executive moaned: "The only trouble is, we've often gone nearly broke trying to get other people to see it." Last week the Tiger Line thought that people were beginning to see things its way. On a gross of $4,964,168, some 60% higher than last year, the line reported a $500,346 net profit (including a $183,500 carryback credit...
...Majesty's government would turn over to the Chinese Communists all Nationalist assets in British territory. This seemed to include the 71 planes sold by the Nationalists to a U.S. corporation headed by Major General Claire Chennault (TIME, March 6)-an asset still under dispute in the British courts...
Born. To Major General Claire Chennault (ret.), 59, granite-faced onetime boss of the Flying Tigers and the Fourteenth Air Force, and second wife Anna Chan, 26, former news reporter: their second daughter (his tenth child); in Hong Kong. Name: Cynthia Louise. Weight...