Pilot Claire Lee Chennault

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Claire Lee Chennault

Living place: Texas

Birthday: 6-9-1893

Global rank: #56069

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Who is Pilot Claire Lee Chennault?
Responsible for the creation of the "Flying Tigers" American service volunteers that supported the Chinese Air Force during World War II, this military pilot earned two Distinguished Flying Crosses for his service in the Army. US Army Air Force and Air Force of the US Army.
Suffering from hearing loss and lung problems, he ended his American military career in 1937 and became a civilian trainer of Chinese military pilots.
 
 

Young / Before famous

After studying at Louisiana State University, he entered a US Army officer training program at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana. He went on to serve in World War I in the Army Air Service.

Family life info

His first marriage, to Nell Thompson, resulted in eight children. He and Thompson divorced in 1946, and he remarried Chinese reporter (and future politician) Chen Xiangmei, with whom he had two other children.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Pilot Claire Lee Chennault?
He persuaded Chinese leader Chiang Kai Shek to demand that US President Franklin D. Roosevelt remove US military commander Joseph Stillwell (who later served in China) from his military base. .

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When was Pilot Claire Lee Chennault born?
Claire Lee Chennault was born in 6-9-1893, death year is , at the age of 131.
Where is Pilot Claire Lee Chennault's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Claire Lee Chennault was born in Texas, . is a Pilot, whose Zodiac is Virgo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Snake. Claire Lee Chennault's global rank is 56069 and whose rank is 34 in list of famous Pilot.
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Events in 1893 and 6-9

Birthday Claire Lee Chennault (6-9) in history

  • Day 6-9 year 1901: President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. McKinley died on September 14th.
  • Day 6-9 year 1941: Nazi Germany required all Jews over the age of six to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothes.
  • Day 6-9 year 1995: Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr., broke Lou Gehrig's iron man record by playing in his 2,131st straight game.
  • Day 6-9 year 1997: More than 2 billion people watched Princess Diana's funeral on TV.
  • Day 6-9 year 1998: Japanese movie director Akira Kurosawa died in Tokyo at age 88.
  • Day 6-9 year 2007: Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti died at age 71.
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