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...Chennault's Mercenaries. To no one man belongs credit for organizing and recruiting the A.V.G. But A.V.G.'s spark plug from the start, its commander in Burma now, is a famous U.S. flyer: lean, dark Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault of Water Proof...
...Claire Chennault flew for the U.S. in World War I, was a major when he retired from the U.S. Air Corps. In the early '30s he organized a fabulous Army team of acrobats ("Three Men on a Flying Trapeze"), thrilled thousands of air-meet spectators...
Leader of this team was, of course, Claire Chennault. His flying partners were two Regular Army sergeants who held temporary lieutenancies in the Air Corps Reserve: William C. McDonald Jr. and J. H. Williamson. Sergeants McDonald and Williamson flunked their academic exams when they applied for permanent commissions, left the Air Corps and went to China. Disgusted Claire Chennault openly protested the Army's failure to keep them: "If we were going into war and I were ordered to the front, I'd choose those two men to accompany me. . . ." Claire Chennault quit the Air Corps (officially...
Said Claire Chennault, after one of their first battles over Rangoon: "This isn't target practice. Don't get the idea the Japs are no good . . . don't get cocky...
...Roosevelt's sixth cousin Joseph W. Alsop Jr., 31-year-old ex-columnist (Alsop & Kintner), who was reported missing at Hong Kong. Not a casualty in the line of journalistic duty, Alsop was working for Chiang Kaishek, as liaison officer with the volunteer U.S. flyers under Colonel Claire Chennault. If the Japanese nabbed him he has even less chance of being exchanged than other correspondent prisoners...