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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Flying Tigers
    sub title: the untold story of the American pilots who waged a secret war against Japan
  name:
    name part: Kleiner, Samuel M. (Samuel Miller)
    name part: 1987-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: v, 294 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation's desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific. Sam Kleiner's Flying Tigers tells the story of the group young American men and women who crossed the Pacific before Pearl Harbor to risk their lives defending the embattled forces of Chiang Kai-Shek's China. These 300 individuals were effectively paid mercenaries, secretly recruited by a mysterious shell company that the federal government had created to circumvent its official stance of nonintervention in the war. Drawn from across the armed services by the prospect of seeing the world and earning a good salary, they traveled to Burma under false identities in the late summer and fall of 1941 and began training there under legendary and leathery general Claire Chennault. The pilots first saw action twelve days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and for the next seven months performed an invaluable strategic service by keeping the Japanese occupied in China and thus enabling the United States to build up its armaments before fully engaging in the conflict. For their daring exploits and remarkable string of victories, they became known as the Flying Tigers.
  table of contents: Dancing in the sky -- Meeting the princess -- The Rape of Nanking -- The international squadron -- Exile in the Chinese hinterland -- An air unit for China -- Training in Toungoo -- Wartime -- Legends in their own time -- Christmas in Rangoon -- Burmese days -- Aerial guerrilla warfare -- Last stand -- Black sheep down.
  note: Sam Kleiner.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: China.
      name part: Kong jun.
      name part: American Volunteer Group
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Chennault, Claire Lee
      name part: 1893-1958
  subject:
    topic: Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
    topic: Aerial operations
  subject:
    topic: Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
    topic: Participation, American
  classification: DS777.533.A35 K54 2018
  classification: 951.04/2
  identifier: 9780399564130
  identifier: 0399564136
  identifier: 9780399564147
  identifier: 2018013214
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180316
    record change date: 20180718090559.0
    record identifier: in00004035185