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Claire Lee Chennault è stato un generale e aviatore statunitense, famoso per aver comandato le "Tigri Volanti" durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Chennault organizzò il Gruppo volontari americani o Tigri Volanti, che prestò servizio in Cina prima che gli Stati Uniti d'America entrassero in guerra. Nel luglio del 1942, dopo l ...
Claire Lee Chennault (September 6, 1893 – July 27, 1958) was an American military aviator best known for his leadership of the "Flying Tigers" and the Chinese Nationalist Air Force in World War II.
Maj. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault was a World War II leader of the famed Flying Tigers in China, for whom Chennault Air Force Base, Lake Charles, La., is named. He was born Commerce, Texas, 1890; died New Orleans, La., July 27, 1958.
Claire L. Chennault (born September 6, 1890, Commerce, Texas, U.S.—died July 27, 1958, New Orleans, Louisiana) was a U.S. major general who commanded the U.S. Army Air Forces in China (1942–45) and created the American Volunteer Group (AVG), best known as the Flying Tigers.
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Claire Lee Chennault, the founder and leader of World War II’s most colorful air unit and one of the engaging, egocentric characters in which the China-Burma-India Theater abounded, was born in Commerce, Texas, on September 6, 1890.
Claire Chennault led the famed Flying Tigers and the U.S. 14th Air Force against the Japanese in China and Burma during World War II. He was a charismatic airpower theorist and a controversial leader who at times disagreed with official doctrine and his superiors.
During his years in China, Claire Chennault set prece-dents in the way intelligence was acquired and used, long before America had an intelli-gence service. He was an inno-vative thinker, unconventional in his views of air warfare and intelligence. He set clear objec-tives and used intelligence to.
