Author: WHELAN, RUSSELL. Title: The Flying Tigers; The Story of the American Volunteer Group.
Description: First Australian Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp.[vi], 216; frontispiece map, text illustrated with 14 b/w. photographic illustrations, list of killed in action, missing in action, nominal roll, bound in original orange cloth, title lettered in black on spine, decoration to front board, black ink stain on front board, spine faded, otherwise a good copy. Sydney; Angus and Robertson Ltd.; 1943. The Flying Tigers were American boys from forty-one states, fighting pilots trained in Americas army and navy and now members of the new American Volunteer Group employed by the Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to protect the lifeline of China the Burma Road. they saved Rangoon and the Burma Road for sixty-five precious days. They became demigods of Fighting China.
Keywords: gmil military second world war china japan american history.
Price: AUD 50.00 = appr. US$ 34.59 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 111113