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...debts and his income, there were frowns from his superiors because of his drinking, and the chance of getting promoted from first lieutenant to captain seemed slim indeed. Then he met a fast-talking World War I pilot who had come to Pensacola to recruit volunteers for General Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers. Boyington instantly sensed that it was time to be going somewhere. Within days he had resigned from the Marine Corps and was organizing a farewell drunk before leaving for Burma...
That warning delivered, Mme. Chiang flew off to New Orleans to see an old friend and fellow freedom fighter whose sentiments were similar: Major General Claire Lee Chennault, 67, the old commander of the Flying Tigers, who is now fighting a tough battle against lung cancer in Ochsner Foundation Hospital. "I can't talk very well," said Chennault, sitting on the edge of his hospital bed. Said Mme. Chiang with a smile: "Well, you always talked too much anyway. I want to do the talking this time." And she added a final word to the old Flying Tiger that...
Later in the war, Berrigan covered General Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers and General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's campaigns, filed some good I-was-there stories on the British retreat from Burma. Quitting U.P. in 1945, Berrigan freelanced around the Far East (Saturday Evening Post, New York Times) until he met General Phao and the World in Bangkok...
...during March and April some 20 transport planes had touched down at the dirt airport to refuel and continue on their way to or from rebel-held Menado. The planes reportedly had Nationalist Chinese markings covered over with hasty coats of paint, their pilots were Chinese and Americans from Chennault's swashbuckling CAT, the cargoes were rumored to be guns and munitions. But the continued string of rebel defeats and the new posture of cordial friendship between the U.S. and the Indonesian government of President Sukarno has had its effect: not a single Menado-bound plane has landed...
...ground and broke his right thigh. For the Indonesians, he was an impressive catch. His name: Allen Lawrence Pope. Nationality: U.S.A. Florida-born Allen Pope, 29, was an ex-Air Force first lieutenant, who won the D.F.C. in the Korean war, became a crack pilot with Claire Chennault's Formosa-based Civil Air Transport, flew transports over Dien-bienphu in the Indo-China...