Claire Chennault/Bibliography

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Primary Sources

• Chennault, Anna. Chennault and the Flying Tigers. (1963).
• Chennault, Claire Lee. Way of a Fighter: The Memoirs of Claire Lee Chennault. ed. by Robert Horz; (1949).
• Klinkowitz, Jerome. With the Tigers Over China, 1941–1942 (1999), memoirs and oral histories

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• see also China-Burma-India theater (CBI)/Bibliography
• Armstrong, Alan. Preemptive Strike: The Secret Plan That Would Have Prevented the Attack on Pearl Harbor (2006), popular history excerpt and text search
• Byrd, Martha. Chennault: Giving Wings to the Tiger (1987) 451 pp., the standard biography
• Cornelius, Wanda, and Thayne Short. Ding Hao: America's Air War in China, 1937-1945. (1980)
• Craven, Wesley Frank, and James Lea Cate, eds. The Army Air Forces in World War II. Vol. 5. The Pacific: Matterhorn to Nagasaki, June 1944 to August 1945. (1983), official Air Force history.
• Ford, Daniel. Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and the American Volunteer Group (1991).
• Prefer, Nathan N. Vinegar Joe's War: Stilwell's Campaigns for Burma. (2000), 314pp; scholarly historyonline edition
• Plating, John D. "Keeping China in the War: The Trans-Himalayan `Hump' Airlift and Sino-US Strategy in World War II." PhD dissertation Ohio State U. 2007. 397 pp. DAI 2007 68(4): 1627-A. DA3262108 Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
• Romanus, Charles F. and Riley Sunderland. Stilwell's Mission to China (1953), official U.S. Army history online edition; Stilwell's Command Problems (1956) online edition; Time Runs Out in CBI (1958) online edition. Official U.S. Army history
• Schaller Michael. "American Air Strategy in China, 1939-1941: The Origins of Clandestine Air Warfare," American Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Spring, 1976), pp. 3-19 in JSTOR; reprinted in ch. 4 of Schaller, The U.S. Crusade in China, 1938-1945. (1979).
• Schaller Michael. The U.S. Crusade in China, 1938-1945. (1979). online edition
• Thorne Bliss K. The Hump: The Great Military Airlift of World War II. (1965).
• Tuchman, Barbara. Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45, (1972), 624pp; Pulitzer prize (The British edition is titled Against the Wind: Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911-45,) excerpt and text search
• Xu, Guangqiu. "The Issue of U.S. Air Support for China During the Second World War, 1942–1945," Journal of Contemporary History 36 (July 2001): 459–84. in JSTOR
• Xu, Guangqiu. War Wings: The United States and Chinese Military Aviation, 1929–1949 (2001).