| Author | Leonard, Royal.
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| Title | I flew for China / by Royal Leonard.
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| Published | Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1942.
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| Description | xx, 295 pages : color map ; 22 cm
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Bread, not bombs -- The young marshal -- Flight over Tibet -- Routine and reconnaissance -- The kidnapping of Chiang -- My new boss -- Japan marches -- Head of bombardment -- Trouble in Hong Kong -- The first Flying Tiger -- The fall of Nanking -- Flight from doom -- C.N.A.C. -- Marriage and home life -- In a typhoon's eye -- So long, China! -- Report to MacArthur -- The last battlefield.
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| Summary Note | Summary: This book covers the 6 years (from 1935 until 1941) Texan Royal Leonard flew from one end to the other of the Chung-Hua Min-Kuo, and the Republic of China. For most of these six years, Leonard was the personal pilot of the two most prominent men in China -- Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Chang Hsueh-Liang -- and held the rank of captain with the Chinese Army. His last job in China was flying with the Chinese National Aviation Corporation Airline.
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| Subjects | Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 -- Friends and associates.
China -- History -- 1937-1945.
China. Lu jun -- Officers -- Biography.
China National Aviation Corporation -- Employees.
Japan -- History -- 1912-1945.
Leonard, Royal.
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Aerial operations.
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945.
Zhang, Xueliang, 1901-2001 -- Friends and associates.
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| LC Card Number | 42-36351 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: D 777.53 L581 1942
CA-1903237: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 69804] |
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