When tigers ruled the sky : the Flying Tigers : American outlaw pilots over China in World War II

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When tigers ruled the sky : the Flying Tigers : American outlaw pilots over China in World War II

Bill Yenne

Berley Caliber, 2016

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-343) and index

Contents of Works

  • The warlord and the Japanese
  • The formative years of a visionary loner
  • Young tigers
  • Chiang Kai-Shek and the Americans
  • Young tigers get their wings
  • A bridge to war
  • Warplanes for a generalissimo on the run
  • American volunteers for China skies
  • Bounty hunters and farmers sail for China
  • The old man of Toungoo and his buccaneers
  • The war comes to Southeast Asia
  • Stale bread and fair weather friends
  • To do something in this war
  • Flying Tigers in Asian skies
  • Blood and fire over Rangoon
  • We cannot hold Burma without Chinese help
  • Make them pay
  • To the Gold Coast and beyond
  • From tedium to rat race
  • Turning points
  • Unrest in the ranks
  • The last days of Lei Yun
  • Last exits
  • Saving China while the quarterback hiked
  • Scotty and the tigers
  • Fixated upon a mirage
  • Bombing season
  • Countdown to dissolve day
  • Coming out of the cold on a shoestring
  • From Flying Tigers into hungry mastiffs
  • Out of China
  • And into history

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