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Flying Tiger
Jack Samson
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Description for Flying Tiger
Paperback. Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 1987. Num Pages: 488 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 44.
The Flying Tigers and the U.S. Fourteenth will be the subject of a huge upcoming film from IMAX and director John Woo. The film is scheduled to start shooting in spring 2011 with no firm release date stated yet. The role of Chenault in the film is likely to be the role of a lifetime for a huge star. When a sickly, half-deaf, forty-seven-year-old retired U.S. Army Air Corps Captain went to China in 1937 to survey Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Air Force, little did the world know this would be the man to stem the Japanese tide in the Far ... Read more
The Flying Tigers and the U.S. Fourteenth will be the subject of a huge upcoming film from IMAX and director John Woo. The film is scheduled to start shooting in spring 2011 with no firm release date stated yet. The role of Chenault in the film is likely to be the role of a lifetime for a huge star. When a sickly, half-deaf, forty-seven-year-old retired U.S. Army Air Corps Captain went to China in 1937 to survey Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Air Force, little did the world know this would be the man to stem the Japanese tide in the Far ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Guilford, United States
ISBN
9780762772834
SKU
V9780762772834
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About Jack Samson
Jack Samson, longtime CBS editor and wire-service foreign correspondent, is the author of fifteen previous books. He served with Chennault's Fourteenth U.S. Army Air Force in China as a navigator and later returned to Asia, where he worked in public relations for the general's civilian airline, CAT. A private pilot, Samson is official historian of the Fourteenth U.S. Army Air ... Read more
Reviews for Flying Tiger
"Samson traces the career of this early prophet of air power who fought the Japanese and became involved in a number of controversies. After the war, Chennault continued to serve the Nationalist Chinese Government and, along with his Civilian Air Transport (CAT), provided a number of clandestine and unique air services to Asia. Samson, who served under Chennault in both ... Read more