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Died. John Stonewall Chennault, 80, father of Brigadier General Claire Chennault, commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces in China; at Gilbert, La., where he was onetime mayor...
...Chinese listened for words of action. They were grateful for what Lieut. General Stilwell and Brigadier General Chennault were doing with so little (see p. 37). They hoped that would be proof at last of how much more a little more would do. Had Dr. Currie come to talk real business-like Hopkins & Harriman on their trips to London and Moscow...
...A.V.G., and Major John Allison of Gainesville, Fla., had launched pin-pricking attacks on Japanese outposts and circled their fields, daring them to come out and fight. Finally they did. These tactics and others, all part of a secret and tricky plan of their commander, Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault, fighting under resourceful Lieutenant General "Uncle Joe" Stilwell, finally led the Jap to get on with his bombing...
People dared to do business by daylight. Claire Chennault began to receive embarrassing presents, banners, trophies...
...Chinese civilians, and no soldiers, were foolish enough to think that in two weeks of operation Chennault had broken the aerial back of the Jap. The force was too small, the pace too heavy, and the Jap was busy about many things. The China Air Force had given the world only a token of what air power could do in China. Newcomer Haynes told newspapermen what many an oldtime China pilot already knew: with more bombers, more fighters, the Jap could be pushed back into...