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Title: Perilous Missions: Civil Air Transport and the CIA Covert Operations in Asia by William M. Leary ISBN: 1-58834-028-7 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
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Summary: the airline before Air America
Comment: The CIA's Air America became famous for its feats in Southeast Asia. This is the story of how Air America began, as a private-venture airline in China headed by Claire Chennault of the Flying Tigers. Leary tells the story of how CAT morphed into a para-military force, supporting Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist troops in their losing battle with the Communists, and eventually retreating with them to Taiwan. There it began to take on odd jobs for the U.S. military, and eventually the CIA bought a piece of it, so that CAT pilots were one day flying supplies to U.S. forces in Korea, again providing the same service for French troops in Vietnam, and between times dropping spies into China. It's a great yarn, though told with professorial precision. A reprint (no changes) of an earlier book from a university press.
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Title: China Pilot by Felix Smith, Anna Chennault ISBN: 1560983981 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Air America by Christopher Robbins ISBN: 0380899094 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: August, 1990 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: Air Commando One : Heinie Aderholt And America's Secret Air Wars by Warren A. Trest ISBN: 156098807X Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Red Wings over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea (Texas A & M University Military History Series, 80) by Xiaoming Zhang, Joseph G. Dawson ISBN: 1585442011 Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Spies in the Himalayas: Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs (Modern War Studies) by M. S. Kohli, M. S. Kohi, Kenneth J. Conboy ISBN: 0700612238 Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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