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Fallen Tigers - The Fate of America's Missing Airmen in China during World War II (Hardcover)
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Fallen Tigers - The Fate of America's Missing Airmen in China during World War II (Hardcover)
Series: History of Military Aviation
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During World War II, America's air forces in China reported at
least 634 aircraft and 1,780 airmen as missing on combat missions.
Fighting a savage guerrilla air war against the Japanese, the
prospect of crash-landing or bailing out in a remote and dangerous
land loomed ominously in the mind of every individual. Of the
airmen reported missing, more than half perished. Remarkably,
ninety percent of those who survived returned to friendly
territory--more than three times the percentage of those rescued in
occupied Europe. Their rescuers included Nationalists, Communists,
warlords, and even alleged collaborators. Despite deep divisions
throughout wartime China, helping downed Americans, including those
of the famed "Flying Tigers", transcended politics. The author
scoured thousands of pages of official reports to build a
comprehensive database of every China-based American airman
reported missing on combat missions during the war. Memoirs,
wartime diaries, and dozens of interviews with veterans--both
American and Chinese--overlay this core of thorough historical
research with compelling personal narratives. The fate of these men
is an incredible story of survival in the midst of a brutal war; it
is a touching story of cooperation between the United States and
China--including with Mao Zedong's Communists. Fallen Tigers is not
just a thrilling historical drama, it is of pressing importance for
our time and the United States' relationship with the rising
Chinese superpower.
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