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Title: Claire Lee Chennault papers
Date (inclusive): 1941-1967
Collection number: 67002
Creator:
Chennault, Claire Lee, 1890-1958
Collection Size:
12 manuscript boxes, 2 card file boxes, 3 envelopes
(5.8 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, orders, memoranda, reports, and speeches and writings, relating to aerial operations in China during World
War II, and to postwar American foreign policy in China.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English
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China. Air Force. American Volunteer Group.
United States. Army--Officers.
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 14th.
United States. Army Air Forces. China Air Task Force.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations.
World War, 1939-1945--China.
China.
China--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations.
United States--Armed Forces.
United States--Foreign relations--China.
| 1890, Sept. 6 | Born, Commerce, Texas |
| 1917 | Commissioned First Lieutenant, U.S. Army. Became military aviator |
| 1937 | Retired from U.S. Army Air Corps as a Lieutenant Colonel |
| 1937-1941 | Adviser to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek |
| 1941, Aug.-1942, July | Commanding Officer, American Volunteer Group in Chinese Air Force |
| 1942 | Commissioned Brigadier General, U.S. Army Air Forces |
| 1942, July-1943, Mar. | Commanding General, China Air Task Force |
| 1943 | Promoted to Major General |
| 1943, Mar.-1945, Aug. | Commanding General, 14th Air Force |
| 1945 | Retired from U.S. Army Air Forces |
| 1946-1958 | President, Chinese National Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Air Transport, and its successor organizations, Civil Air Transport and China Air Transport |
| 1949 | Author, Way of a Fighter |
| 1958, July 27 | Died, New Orleans, Louisiana |