Description
Format: Hardcover
Condition: Very good but no dust jacket
Publisher: Random House (1963)
Author: John Toland
Summary
During World War II a group of American fighter pilots roamed the skies over China and Burma, menacing the Japanese war effort without letup. Flamboyant, daring and courageous, they were called the Flying Tigers. The Tigers, who had been recruited from the Army, Navy and Marines, first saw action as a volunteer group fighting on the side of Chiang Kai-shek's China against Japan. Schooled in the unconventional air-combat tactics of their unorthodox leader, Claire Lee Chennault, they racked up some of the most impressive air-victory records of World War II. In this book John Toland tells the incredible story of Chennault and his magnificent Tigers, a group of men who performed the impossible.