Chow Shih-lin 周石麟 papers, 1940-2019

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Abstract:: Chow Shih-lin (Zhou Shilin) attended the Nationalist Chinese air force in the 1940s, became a member of General Chennault's Flying Tigers, was a founding member of Taiwan's Air Force Thunder Tigers and fought in the 1958 Offshore Island crisis. The Chow Shih-lin papers (1940-2019) includes personal diaries, Flying Tigers journals, photograph albums, videotapes, optical disks, and miscellaneous publications related to the Flying Tigers.
Extent:: 17 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, digital media (10 Linear Feet)
Language:: In Chinese and English
Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Chow Shih-lin 周石麟 papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Scope and content:: The Chow Shih-lin 周石麟 papers (1940-2019) includes personal diaries, Flying Tigers journals, photograph albums, videotapes, optical disks, and miscellaneous publications related to the Flying Tigers.
Biographical / historical:: Chow Shih-lin (Zhou Shilin) was born in Changde, Hunan Province. He attended the Nationalist Chinese air force in the 1940s and was among the first to be chosen and sent to the United States for air force training program. After returning to China, Chow became a member of Genera l Chennault's Flying Tigers fighting against the Japanese. After 1949, Chow went to Taiwan and became a founding member of Taiwan's Air Force Thunder Tigers. He fought in the 1958 Offshore Island crisis, and was later promoted to head of air force combat command, head of the political department, air force, and deputy command-in-chief of air force. He died in Taipei in April 2019.
Acquisition information:: Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 2021.
Physical location:: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:: Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Subjects:: Air forces
Pilots and pilotage
Audiotapes
Compact discs
Diaries
Photograph albums
Names:: China. Kong jun. American Volunteer Group
Places:: China
Taiwan

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Restrictions:: The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Terms of access:: For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Chow Shih-lin 周石麟 papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:: Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US