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• Text: ... and General Chennault that should not have come about - the two commanders. By the same token, the overall commander in the theater over there was Lieutenant General Joe Stilwell. He was placed as overall commander of the theater over there which encompassed the air corps and near...

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• Text: ...re still getting our equipment in shape, and we still had a ways to go with General Bissell. They had reorganized the entire theater, and we came under the 10th Air Force which was organized, and their headquarters was in New Delhi, India, and General Bissell was the Commander of the 10th A...

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• Description: ...t was quickly re-commissioned as a US Air Corps Second Lieutenant. Over the course of the war, Smith returned to the Pacific Theater and flew 55 combat missions over Burma. He was awarded the Air Medal, Distinguisghed Flying Cross, and Silver Star. In this tape, Smith describes the meeting ...

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• Text: ...JUDGE OLDER: Near the end of the AVG, this is now Kunming, we were told to be in the theater at one of the hostels, I think it was hostel number one, but I'm not sure, at 8 o'clock that night for some kind of a meeting. When we got there, it turns out that the meeting was for the...

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• Text: ...HARRINGTON: I think the AVG accomplished an awful lot during the years that they were in existence in the China theater. One thing that it brought out loud and clear that the air tactics and strategies that General Chennault had tried to teach over the many, many years was proved to be fac...

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• Text: ... What sorts of things amused you about China? MA: I don't know that I got amused too much. Now I enjoyed the Chinese Theater. It came to entertain the troops, so to speak, the boys and the Flying School, when we were invited to attend, and I had absolutely no idea what was going on ...

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• Text: ...mind and knew that what we would have to do that we were in a prime position to be effective at the outset. We were in the theater, we were facing the Japs right now. Here was an opportunity, a golden opportunity to make an impact. Those were the thoughts that I mulled over and I had no q...

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• Text: ...ay the situation was in China, lack of communications, they always were the last ones to receive consideration. The European Theater being the prize, as far as the politicians in Washington were concerned. So he had a tough circumstance to overcome and I thought he did pretty well. FRANK B...