Claire Lee Chennault papers, 1941-1967

Collection context

Summary

Creators:
Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958
Abstract:
Correspondence, orders, memoranda, reports, and speeches and writings, relating to aerial operations in China during World War II, and to postwar American foreign policy in China.
Extent:
12 manuscript boxes, 1 card file box, 3 envelopes, 2 oversize folders (5.4 Linear Feet)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Claire Lee Chennault papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Biographical / historical:
Date Event
1890, Sept. 6
Born, Commerce, Texas
1917
Commissioned First Lieutenant, U.S. Army. Became military aviator
1937
Retired from U.S. Army Air Corps as a Lieutenant Colonel
1937-1941
Adviser to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek
1941, Aug.-1942, July
Commanding Officer, American Volunteer Group in Chinese Air Force
1942
Commissioned Brigadier General, U.S. Army Air Forces
1942, July-1943, Mar.
Commanding General, China Air Task Force
1943
Promoted to Major General
1943, Mar.-1945, Aug.
Commanding General, 14th Air Force
1945
Retired from U.S. Army Air Forces
1946-1958
President, Chinese National Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Air Transport, and its successor organizations, Civil Air Transport and China Air Transport
1949
Author, Way of a Fighter
1958, July 27
Died, New Orleans, Louisiana
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Box FH9 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of the collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Terms of access:

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Claire Lee Chennault papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US