Name: Fallen Tigers: The Fate of America'S Missing Airmen in China During World war ii (Aviation & air Power) (en Inglés)
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Author: Jackson, Daniel
ISBN: 9780813180809

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Fallen Tigers: The Fate of America'S Missing Airmen in China During World war ii (Aviation & air Power) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Daniel Jackson

Editorial

University Press of Kentucky

Año

2021

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

310

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.1x15.7x2.8 cm

Peso

0.56 kg.

ISBN13

9780813180809

Categorías

China
C. 1939-c. 1945 (época de la segunda guerra mundial)
Fuerzas aéreas y guerra
Historia de asia
Segunda guerra mundial

Fallen Tigers: The Fate of America'S Missing Airmen in China During World war ii (Aviation & air Power) (en Inglés)

Daniel Jackson (Autor) · University Press of Kentucky · Tapa Dura

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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 weeks of that fateful Sunday in December 1941, the American Volunteer Group -- soon to become known as the legendary "Flying Tigers" -- went into action. For three and a half years, the volunteers and the Army Air Force airmen who followed them fought in dangerous aerial duels over East Asia. Audaciously led by master tactician Claire Lee Chennault, daring pilots such as David Lee "Tex" Hill and George B. "Mac" McMillan led their men in desperate combat against enemy air forces and armies despite being outnumbered and outgunned. Aviators who fell in combat and survived the crash or bailout faced the terrifying reality of being lost and injured in unfamiliar territory.Historian Daniel Jackson, himself a combat-tested pilot, recounts the stories of downed aviators who attempted to evade capture by the Japanese in their bid to return to Allied territory. He reveals the heroism of these airmen was equaled, and often exceeded, by the Chinese soldiers and civilians who risked their lives to return them safely to American bases. Based on thorough archival research and filled with compelling personal narratives from memoirs, wartime diaries, and dozens of interviews with veterans, this vital work offers an important new perspective on the Flying Tigers and the history of World War II in China.