Register of the Claire Lee Chennault papers
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 |
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Awards. Citations, letters, and memoranda 1945-1947
Financial records. Vouchers, pay authorizations, correspondence, and miscellany 1942-1945
Flight records. Certifications, and schedules 1943-1945
Orders 1943-1945
Blueprints undated
Blueprints undated
Charts undated
Charts undated
Correspondence 1941-1942
Burma. Department of Posts and Telegraphs 1941
Burma. Directorate of Civil Aviation 1941
Burma. Governor 1941-1942
Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company 1941-1942
Chiang, Mei-ling 1941-1942
China. Air Force. American Volunteer Group. Confidential Secretariat 1941-1942
China. Air Force. American Volunteer Group. Detachment, Kunming 1941-1942
China. Air Force. Commander-in-Chief 1941-1942
China. Air Force. 5th Route Air Force 1941-1942
China. Army. War Area Service Corps 1941-1942
China. Commission on Aeronautical Affairs 1941-1942
China. Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1941-1942
China. National Military Council. President 1941-1942
China Defense Supplies 1941-1942
France. Armee. Forces Libres de l'Extreme-Orient 1942
Great Britain. Army 1941-1942
Great Britain. Consulate GeneraI, Kunming, China 1941
Great Britain. Military Mission, China 1942
Great Britain. Royal Air Force, Burma 1941-1942
Great Britain. Royal Air Force, China 1942
Great Britain. Royal Air Force, Far East 1941
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Toungoo, Burma Station 1941
Imperial Bank of India 1941
Thomas Cook and Son 1941
Toungoo, Burma. District Superintendent of Police 1941
U.S. Army. Forces in the Far East 1941-1942
U.S. Consulate, Kunming, China 1942
U.S. Consulate, Rangoon, Burma 1941
U.S. Consulate General, Calcutta, India 1941
U.S. Embassy (China) 1941-1942
U.S. President. Administrative Assistant 1941-1942
Wang, C. C. 1942
Yunnan, China. Governor 1941-1942
Flight logs 1941-1942
Memoranda, Numbered 1941-1942
Memoranda, Unnumbered 1941-1942
Memoranda (1st Pursuit Squadron) 1941-1942
Orders, Field 1941-1942
Orders, General 1941
Orders, Movement 1941
Orders, Operations 1941-1942
Orders, Special 1941-1942
Orders, Special (1st Pursuit Squadron) 1942
Reports, Combat 1942
Reports, Flight 1942
Reports, Operations 1941-1942
Rosters 1941-1942
Subject file 1941-1942
Aerial operations. Correspondence, radiograms, minutes, plans, and memoranda 1941-1942
Air bases. Correspondence, radiograms, memoranda, and lists 1941-1942
Air pilots. Lists, and statistics 1941-1942
Airplanes
Motors. Correspondence, radiograms, memoranda, and lists 1941-1942
Procurement. Correspondence, radiograms, memoranda, and lists 1941-1942
Armaments - Procurement. Correspondence, radiograms, memoranda, lists, and bulletin 1941-1942
Battles. Records of victories and losses 1941-1942
Bonus payments. Correspondence, radiograms, memoranda, and lists 1941-1942
Casualties. Correspondence, memoranda, lists, and radiograms 1941-1942
Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company. Legal agreements, notes, memoranda, and radiograms 1941-1942
Communications. Correspondence, radiograms, memoranda, and lists 1941-1942
Finance. Correspondence, radiograms, memoranda, and financial statements 1941-1942
Flight engineering. Correspondence, radiograms, memoranda, and lists 1941-1942
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Correspondence, radiograms, memoranda, notes, and lists 1941-1942
Japan. Air Force. Translation of manual 1941
Medals, badges, decorations, etc. Correspondence, radiograms, citations, memoranda, lists, and regulations 1942
Medical and sanitary affairs
Case records 1941-1942
Certificates 1941-1942
Correspondence 1941-1942
Miscellany. Memoranda, lists, and blue-prints 1941-1942
Miscellany (continued) 1941-1942
Sick reports 1941-1942
Medical supplies. Lists, and shipping records 1941
Military intelligence. Correspondence, radiograms, reports, memoranda, and lists 1941-1942
Military supplies - Procurement. Correspondence, radiograms, reports, memoranda, and lists 1941-1942
Organization. Correspondence, plans, charts, and lists 1941
Personnel
Correspondence 1941-1942
Discharge reports 1941
Information sheets (1st Pursuit Squadron)
Ground personnel 1941-1942
Pilots 1941-1942
Miscellany. Legal agreements, lists, notes, and memoranda 1941-1942
Status reports 1941-1942
Public relations. Correspondence, radiograms, memoranda, censorship reports, press releases, news dispatches, and printed matter 1941-1942
Transportation. Correspondence, radiograms, memoranda, and lists 1941-1942
U.S. Military Mission to China. Correspondence, radiograms, memoranda, and lists 1941-1942
Summary history 1942
War diary 1941-1942
Correspondence 1942-1943
Bank of China 1943
Catholic Mission Medical Service of China 1942
Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company 1942-1943
China. Air Force. Commander-in-Chief 1943
China. Army 1942
China. Commission on Aeronautical Affairs 1942
China. Ministry of Finance 1942
China. Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1942-1943
Great Britain. Embassy (China) 1943
Hopkins, Arthur 1942
Noe, James A. 1942
PM (Magazine) 1942
Rumen, John N. 1942
U.S. Army. Forces in the Far East 1942-1943
U.S. Army Air Forces. 10th Air Force 1942-1943
U.S. Army Air Forces. Air Transport Command 1943
U.S. Army Air Forces. China Air Task Force. Communications Officer 1943
U.S. Army Air Forces. China Air Task Force. Secretary to the Commanding General 1942-1943
U.S. President. Administrative Assistant 1942
U.S. War Department 1942
Yu-pin, Bishop Paul 1942
Subject file 1942-1943
Aerial operations. Radiograms, and memoranda 1942-1943
Flying Tigers (Organization of veterans of the American Volunteer Group) Correspondence, radiograms, memoranda, and miscellany 1942-1943
Military offenses. Letter 1943
Correspondence 1943-1945
All-China Comforting Association 1943-1945
Allied Forces. Southeast Asia Command 1943-1944
American Broadcasting Company 1945
American Church Mission. West China Office 1945
Brown, Raymond R. 1943
China. Air Force. 5th Route Air Force 1943-1945
China. Army 1943-1945
China. Commission on Aeronautical Affairs 1943-1945
China. Ministry of Communications 1943
China. Ministry of Finance 1944-1945
China. Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1944
China. Ministry of Information 1945
China. Ministry of Training 1945
China. National Military Council 1943-1945
France. Consulat, Kunming, China 1945
Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Texas 1945
Glendale, California. City Clerk 1944
Great Britain. Army. Aid Group, Kunming, China 1945
Great Britain. Embassy (China) 1944-1945
Great Britain. Joint Staff Mission 1943
Great Britain. Royal Air Force 1943-1944
Hughes, Louie 1944
India. Viceroy 1945
Kunming, China. Catholic Church 1945
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr. 1943
Mahony, Edith 1943
Noe, James A. 1943-1944
People's Foreign Relations Association of China 1945
U.S. Army. Forces in the Far East 1943-1945
U.S. Army Air Forces. 5th Air Force 1944
U.S. Army Air Forces. 14th Air Force. Chinese American Composite Wing 1945
U.S. Army Air Forces. 14th Air Force. 68th Composite Wing 1943-1944
U.S. Army Air Forces. 8th Air Support Command 1943
U.S. Army Air Forces. 12th Air Support Command 1944
U.S. Army Air Forces. Assistant Chief of Staff, Personnel 1943-1944
U.S. Army Air Forces. Assistant Chief of Staff, Plans 1944
U.S. Army Air Forces. Commanding General 1943-1945
U.S. Consulate, Kunming, China 1943
U.S. Department of State 1944
U.S. Federal Economic Administration 1944
U.S. Joint Intelligence Staff 1945
U.S. Navy Department 1945
U.S. Observer Mission to Yenan 1944
U.S. War Department 1943-1945
Vaughan, Guy W. 1943
Yunnan, China. Governor 1945
Subject file 1943-1945
Aerial operations. Correspondence, memoranda, plans, maps, and notes 1943-1945
Aerial operations (continued) 1943-1945
Airlift, Military. Memoranda, lists, and notes 1943-1945
China. Air Force. Correspondence, radiograms, memoranda, plans, and lists 1943-1945
China. Army. Y-Force. Memoranda, radiograms, and maps 1943-1944
Flying Tigers (Organization of veterans of the American Volunteer Group) Correspondence, memoranda, lists, and minutes 1943-1945
Logistics. Report 1945
Military intelligence. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and printed matter 1943-1944
Military offenses. Correspondence, radiograms, depositions, testimony, and memoranda 1945
Military supplies. Correspondence, radiograms, memoranda, plans, and lists 1943-1944
Organization. Radiogram, orders, plans, notes, and press release 1945
Parachute troops. Radiograms, memoranda, and charts 1943
Security classification. Manual 1943
Transportation. Correspondence, radiograms, report, memoranda, and map 1943-1944
Correspondence 1948-1951
American Bureau for Medical Aid to China 1949
American China Policy Association 1949
Bullitt, William C. 1948
Chen, Che-tang 1949
China. Embassy (U.S.) 1949
China. Inspectorate General of Customs 1948
China. President 1949
Dickerson, Wayne R. 1949
Fox, Charles R. 1949
Harbison, William Albert 1949
Harris, Hendon M. 1949
Heston, L.G. 1949
Hoover, Herbert 1949
Hull, Cordell 1949
Johnson, Burton H. 1949
Kansu, China. Governor 1949
Knowland, William F. 1949-1951
Kwangtung, China. Governor 1949
Lippmann, Walter 1949
Moy, Ernest K. 1948
National Agricultural Engineering Corporation 1948
Noe, James A. 1949
North Western Industrial Company 1948
Stout, James M. 1949
U.S. Congress 1948-1949
U.S. Department of Defense 1949
U.S. Department of State 1949
U.S. Department of the Treasury 1949
U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration. Mission to China 1948-1949
U.S. National Security Council 1949
U.S. Vice President 1949
Vinson, Fred M. 1949
Speeches and writings 1945-1954
Interview on American Volunteer Group, Typewritten transcript n.d.
Speech on American Volunteer Group, Typescript n.d.
Speech on atomic warfare, Typescript n.d.
Miscellaneous speeches, Correspondence, contracts, programs, and notes 1945-1951. 1945-1951
Speech, China Friendship Day, New York City, Holograph, typescript, and programs October 10, 1945. 1945
Speech on postwar reconstruction of China, New York City, Holograph, and typescript October 29, 1945.
Speech, Victory Bond rally, Monroe, Louisiana, Typescript December 8, 1945.
Statement on independence of the Philippine Islands, Typescript June 22, 1946.
United States Aid to the National Government of China; Typescript 1948?
United States Can Stamp Out the Threat of War; Washington Daily News; Printed copy February 2, 1948.
Testimony, Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, Holograph, typescript, mimeographed copy, and correspondence March 10, 1948. 1948
Radio broadcast, Army Day, Typescript April 6, 1948.
Statement, Appropriations Committee, U.S. Senate, Typescript April 20, 1948.
Statement on China, Typescript 1949?
Way of a Fighter, Correspondence, reviews, miscellany, and reprint of foreword 1949. 1949
Speech, 14th Air Force Day, Canton, China, Typescript, and letter March 10, 1949. 1949
Red Cloud over China; America; Printed copy March 19, 1949.
Testimony, Joint Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation, U.S. Congress, Mimeographed copy, and correspondence May 3, 1949. 1949
Last Call for China; Life; Typescript; printed copy; and correspondence July 11, 1949. 1949
Radio interview on China, Typewritten transcript July 31, 1949.
Holding Communism in the Far East; Typescript; and correspondence 1950. 1950
U.S. Anti-Communist Program in Far East; Typescript 1950?
Interview, Courtroom of the Air (radio program), Typewritten transcript, and letter September 26, 1950. 1950
What Should Be Our Policy in Asia Now? America's Town Hall Meeting of the Air (radio program); Typescript; and correspondence November 21, 1950. 1950
The Dilemma of the Red Chinese; Typescript March 13, 1951.
Chennault Urges U.S. to Back Chiang's Forces to Stop Reds; New York Herald Tribune; Printed copy March 26, 1951.
Chiang's Troops Called Able to Seize Mainland if Provided with U.S. Arms; New York Herald Tribune; Printed copy March 27, 1951.
Chiang Air Force Well Trained; Eager to Fight; New York Herald Tribune; Printed copy March 28, 1951.
Chiang's Sailors and Marines Praised for Spirit and Training; New York Herald Tribune; Printed copy March 29, 1951.
1;600;000 Anti-Red Guerrillas Reported Active in China Proper; New York Herald Tribune; Printed copy March 30, 1951.
Chiang Says World Peace Hinges on Total Defeat of Communism; New York Herald Tribune; Printed copy April 1, 1951.
Statement on removal of General Douglas MacArthur, Mimeographed copy, and letter April 8, 1951. 1951
The Korean Dilemma; Typescript; and correspondence May 21, 1951. 1951
Statement on proposed invasion of China, Typescript, and correspondence November 22, 1952. 1952-1953
The Flying Tigers Can Do It Again; Look; Printed condensation September 7, 1954.
Subject file 1945-1967
China - History - Civil War, Memoranda, and miscellany 1945-1949. 1949
Civil Air Transport, Inc.
Correspondence 1950-1952
General 1950-1952
U.S. Congress 1950-1952
Miscellany. Statements, resolutions, memoranda, notes, press releases, news dispatches, and printed matter 1950-1952
Flying Tigers (Organization of veterans of the American Volunteer Group)
Correspondence 1945-1959
Miscellany. Pamphlets, brochures, bulletin, press releases, notices, and lists 1945-1967
Fourteenth Air Force Association (Organization of veterans of the U.S. 14th Air Force)
Correspondence 1947-1958
Miscellany. Bulletins, lists, financial statement, and programs 1948-1960
International Volunteer Group (Proposed) Correspondence 1954
Sentner, David P. Correspondence 1949
U.S. - Foreign relations - China. Memoranda, testimony, and printed matter 1947-1949
2011 July release of records 1941-1949
U.S. War Department 1941-1944
U.S. Department of State 1941-1949
British 1941-1945
Republic of China 1941-1948
Duty record cards (larger cards)
Information data cards (smaller cards)
PHOTOGRAPHS
Aerial photographs of the Kunming area of China taken by the U.S. 14th Air Force during World War II, 3 prints 1943 August
Photographs of Claire Chennault depicting him in various locations in China and the United States, 7 prints circa 1940-1948
20 prints of Claire Lee Chennault, alone and with others 1943-1945