CHENNAULT AND THE FLYING TIGERS. [The Author Married General Claire L. Chennault

New York [1963], Eriksson. Yellow cloth, very bright and clean, end paper maps, 298p., 20 b. w. photos, 14 x 21 cm., unclipped dust jacket in mylar protector, First Edition, 3rd printing.*ANNA CHENNAULT'S SIGNED & DATED PRESENTATION COPY* . *** *** *** . . EXCELLENT PRIMARY RESOURCE BY CHENNAULT'S CHINESE WIFE . . BASED ON GENERAL CHENNAULT'S, DIARIES, MEMOIRS . .PERSONAL LETTERS, PERSONAL PAPERS & OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE . . A STORY ONLY HIS WIFE COULD WRITE . *** This is the incredible but true story of the daring and heroic American pilots known as the "A.V.G." ["AMERICAN VOLUNTEER GROUP"] later known as the "FLYING TIGERS." Founded & organized by a famous American General, Claire L. Chennault. . His genius formed these fighters into the most formidable military groups in American aviation history, is told in this stirring book by his widow." Extracted from the dust jacket notes. . Based on the personal records the General kept, his diary, memoirs and personal papers, letters and official documents of the "A.V.G."["American Volunteer Group"], the "China Air Task Force" and the "Fourteenth Air Force," and many other resources. . Between December 1941 and August 15, 1945 [V-J Day], the "A.V.G." lost only 500 airplanes in all from all combat causes while destroying 2600 enemy planes and probably destroying 1500 more, they sank and damaged 2,230,000 tones of enemy merchant shipping, 44 naval vessels and 13,000 river boats under 100 tons, knocked out 573 bridges and killed 66,7000 enemy troops. . * THE MOST RELIABLE AND EXCELLENT PRIMARY RESOURCE: This is the one-and-only most reliable resource to record for posterity, the actual activities based on primary papers from Major General Chennault's personal archive. This book is adeptly worked into the story of the celebrated "A.V.G." & "FLYING TIGERS" by the single most intimately close person who shared Chennault's life during these times, his wife Anna Chennault. It is therefore now one of the most stunning and fascinating resources on the subject to date. . *** INTRODUCTION: The introduction was written by Thomas G. Corcoran, Major General Chennault's "great friend" and supporter. "Tommy the Cork" as he was commonly called in Washington D.C. circles was part of the White House "brain trust..." later to become counsel of the China lend-lease effort. Corcoran [1900-1981] was also a prominent Washington lawyer and adviser in Franklin D. Roosevelt's Administration. . With tribute to Chennault by Joseph Alsop, Jr. . *** THE AUTHOR: . . ANNA C. CHENNAULT [1925-2018]: THE HISTORY OF ANNA CHENNAULT: Chen Xiangmei in Chinese was the Chinese wife of Major General Claire L. Chennault. She, was born in Beijing, on June 23, 1925. Chen Xiangmei "received a B.A. degree in Chinese from Lingnan University in Hong Kong in 1944, and an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Chungang in Seoul, Korea in 1967". She "began her career as a journalist, serving as a war correspondent for the Central News Agency from 1944 to 1948. She was a feature writer for the Hsin Ming Daily News in Shanghai, China from 1944 to 1949." Chen Xiangmei was married in 1947 to Claire Lee Chennault, who was more than 32 years her senior and he died in 1958. . She & Chennault had two children, Claire Anna and Cynthia Louise. Her husband's death has not seemed to have slowed her career: "she served as a special correspondent for the Central News Agency from 1965 to the present [1999] and as a U.S. correspondent for the Hsin Shen Daily News from 1958 to the present [1999]. . Xiangmei was a broadcaster for the Voice of America [V.O.A.] from 1963 to 1966." Chen Xiangmei served as an editor and public relations officer for the Civil Air Transport [C.A.T.] in Taipei, Taiwan, from 1946 until 1957. After her husband's death IN 1958, Anna Chennault was vice-president of international affairs for the Flying Tiger Line. "She has served as president of TAC International from 1976 to the present [1999]." . "[Anna] Chennault has been a member of the President's Advisory Committee for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since 1970...served as a member of the United States National Committee for UNESCO from 1970 to the present [1999]...as president of Chinese Refugee Relief from 1962 to 1970 and has served as president of the General Claire Chennault Foundation from 1960 to the present [1999]." . Anna Chennault "has served as a committee woman of the Washington, D.C. Republican Party since 1960...was the founder and chairperson of the National Republican Asian Assembly" and has advocated greater participation in political affairs by Chinese and other Asian-Americans, and also has discussed relations between the U.S. and China. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** NOTE: We have a substantial group of books about Chennault, "A.V.G." & FLYING TIGERS related. Please download our "Flying Tigers" color illustrated pdf. catalog from our website. . *** END PAPER MAPS: The book has both front and rear end paper maps of China & S.E. Asia. . *** AWARDS: The Freedom Award of the Order of Lafayette (1966) The Freedom Award from the Free China Association (1966) The Award of Honor from the Chinese-American Alliance (1971) . *** REFERENCE: . For more on Anna, Claire Lee Chennault and Thomas Gardiner Corcoran see each name at WikiPedia. . * .