Its hard to believe LBJ tapped her phone and wanted to prosecute this woman.
R.I.P.
Posted on 04/04/2018 7:36:05 AM PDT by mac_truck
Barbara Tuchman’s: Stillwell and the American Experience in China as a kid was first history book that made an impression on me. Chennault and his Chinese wife were featured prominently in it.
My Dad was also CBI. He flew the Hump and helped supply various Chinese units.
If a Zero got on a P-40’s tail, the Warhawk pilot would simply dive and roll to the right at high speed. The A6M Zero(Allied code name “Zeke”)with its thick, wide wings and barn-door sized ailerons couldn’t turn worth a damn in a high speed dive, especially to the right and couldn’t follow the diving P-40.
Once this was understood by Allied pilots, they simply dove on Japanese formations firing 50 cal armor piercing incendiaries at the highly flammable Japanese aircraft and diving out through the formations avoiding any aerial “dogfighting” with the highly maneuverable Zeros.
This tactic became even easier with the higher service-ceiling, higher-powered late war allied fighters like the Hellcat, P-38, and Corsair.
If that's true, they certainly earned their pay.
Incidentally, they didn't call themselves the Flying Tigers. That moniker was coined by Stateside journalists.
Its hard to believe LBJ tapped her phone and wanted to prosecute this woman.
R.I.P.
LBJ didn’t care for anti-communists who often called him “soft on communism.”
The P-40 was heavier and could out dive the zero. It also had armor, self sealing fuel tanks and six 50 caliber machine guns.
The Flying Tigers were a unique group.
I’ve read Boyingtons book and those guys fascinated me.
There was a general they all hated, referred to as “Lard Ass”.
Any idea who that might have been?
“Its hard to believe LBJ tapped her phone and wanted to prosecute this woman.”
He was probably intimidated by her.
She sounds like a strong willed woman who didn’t back down.
LBJ was a jackass.
He married Anna in 1947, when she was a hot 22 year old, and he was 54.
Typical Masshole comment.
Huh?
It was meant as a joke.
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I don't know if it's true or if Nixon was involved or if Thieu couldn't have reached that conclusion on his own, but that's what Johnson was peeved about and what Ken Burns was complaining about in his recent Vietnam documentary.
RIP.
Really piss-poor one.
Claire Chennault was one of my boyhood heroes, as was his wife a heroine.
Too many folks today do not know the story of the Flying Tigers and what they accomplished. The airport manager in the town I grew up in was an aircraft mechanic in the Tigers. An American Indian and a great guy!
History is getting revised enough by the left without any humorous help.
“It also had armor, self sealing fuel tanks and six 50 caliber machine guns.”
The .50 BMG in the air and on the ground went a long way towards winning WWII.
It is not called “Mama Deuce” for no good reason.
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