July 27, 1958 (the Hundred Days, June 11), the captain of the "Flying Tigers" Claire Chennault's death.




Chennault's death a "target =" _blank "> Chennault In in 1958. (Today in History TodayOnHistory.com) Lieutenant General Claire - Lee - Chennault led Tiger players well-known pioneer pilots suffering from lung cancer, died today at the New Orleans hospital, aged 67 years. guard at the bedside. his wife, Anna, Anna, a Chinese news reporter in "Flying Tigers "When retaining
Chennault Louisiana, the son of a cotton farmer, an Army aviation pilots in World War I, and quickly displayed a tactical fighter to the 20th century In the 1930s, he was the captain of an aerobatic team, known as the "trapeze" he proposed new ideas more than separate flight combat effectiveness of the fighters flying in formation effect of this new thinking is found in the first After the Second World War.
in 1938. com) (history of Madame Chiang Kai-shek who hired him to reconstitute the Chinese Nationalist Air Force to get a nod from Washington, he organized the American Volunteer Group - that Americans are driving American-made aircraft battle for the Chinese people. Zhezhi volunteer team and later became the famous "Flying Tigers" from the first flight in December 1941 to July 1942 was incorporated into the Army Air Corps during time team. shot down 250 Japanese planes.
Lieutenant General Claire - Chennault so that the name of the "Flying Tigers" eternal
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