Summary of Sam Kleiner's The Flying Tigers

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#1 To understand Claire Chennault, you must trace his roots to the backwoods of northeast Louisiana. His father, John, was a cotton farmer who had built the house with his own hands in 1905 when Claire was a boy. Claire wanted to escape from his seemingly inevitable fate as a cotton farmer like his father.

#2 In 1910, Chennault attended the Fifth Annual Louisiana State Fair in Shreveport. He saw a biplane plane that was flown by Stanley Vaughn of Ohio. The plane suddenly plummeted to the ground, and Vaughn was unharmed. He vowed that he would fly again.

#3 Chennault was a teacher in Louisiana, and he was attracted to a young student named Nell Thompson. He began to court her, and she was impressed by his independence, lively curiosity, and quiet strength.

#4 Chennault was married with two kids in 1911, and he and his family moved to New Orleans. In 1916, he took the train to Akron, Ohio, and showed up with a few suitcases and a trunk. He rented the attic of a house for five dollars a week.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669377238

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Insights on Sam Kleiner's The Flying Tigers

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

To understand Claire Chennault, you must trace his roots to the backwoods of northeast Louisiana. His father, John, was a cotton farmer who had built the house with his own hands in 1905 when Claire was a boy. Claire wanted to escape from his seemingly inevitable fate as a cotton farmer like his father.

#2

In 1910, Chennault attended the Fifth Annual Louisiana State Fair in Shreveport. He saw a biplane plane that was flown by Stanley Vaughn of Ohio. The plane suddenly plummeted to the ground, and Vaughn was unharmed. He vowed that he would fly again.

#3

Chennault was a teacher in Louisiana, and he was attracted to a young student named Nell Thompson. He began to court her, and she was impressed by his independence, lively curiosity, and quiet strength.

#4

Chennault was married with two kids in 1911, and he and his family moved to New Orleans. In 1916, he took the train to Akron, Ohio, and showed up with a few suitcases and a trunk. He rented the attic of a house for five dollars a week.

#5

Chennault was one of the many Ivy League graduates who were recruited to be pilots in the Great War. He was assigned to a base in Texas, where he spent his days drilling new infantry soldiers, but would visit the field where the planes were taking off and fly whenever he could.

#6

After the war, Chennault applied to be a pilot again, and this time his perseverance paid off. He was assigned to the Twelfth Observation Squadron in El Paso, Texas, in 1921. He flew unarmed planes over the Big Bend district, a sort of aerial border patrol.

#7

By the 1920s, Chennault had become one of the army’s more experienced pilots. He was