Fallen tigers : the fate of America's missing airmen in China during World War II /

Mere months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a volunteer group of American airmen to the Far East, convinced that supporting Chinese resistance against the continuing Japanese invasion would be crucial to an eventual Allied victory in World War II. Within two w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jackson, Daniel, 1987- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2021]
Series:	Aviation and air power.
Subjects:	United States. > Army Air Forces. > Air Force, 14th > History. China. > Kong jun. > American Volunteer Group > History. United States. > Army Air Forces. > China Air Task Force > History. United States. > Army Air Forces > Biography. World War, 1939-1945 > Search and rescue operations > China. World War, 1939-1945 > Missing in action. Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 > Aerial operations, American. World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > China. Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 > Participation, American. Military assistance, American > China > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Aerial Oppression
Hope for China
Doolittle's Raid
Enemy Occupation
China Air Task Force
Hong Kong
Aerial Offensive
Shipping is the Key
Thanksgiving Day
Ambush at Jiujiang
Operation Ichi-Go
Collateral Damage
With the Communists
The Secret Airfield
Thai Fighters
The Final Offensive.