Claire Lee Chennault

Claire Lee Chennault‘s source of wealth comes from being a pilot. How much money is Claire Lee Chennault worth at the age of 130 and what’s his real net worth now?

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Claire Lee Chennault (born September 6, 1893) is famous for being pilot. He currently resides in Texas. Responsible for creating the American “Flying Tigers” volunteer military service that aided the Chinese Air Force during World War II, this military pilot earned two Distinguished Flying Crosses for his service in the U.S. Army Air Corps and the U.S. Army Air Forces.

Claire Lee Chennault is a Virgo and was born in The Year of the Serpent

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Claire Lee Chennault was born in Texas on Wednesday, September 6, 1893 (G.I. Generation generation). He is 130 years old and is a Virgo. Claire Lee Chennault (September 6, 1893 – July 27, 1958) was an American military aviator best known for his leadership of the “Flying Tigers” and the Republic of China Air Force in World War II. Chennault was a fierce advocate of “pursuit” or fighter-interceptor aircraft during the 1930s when the U.S. Army Air Corps was focused primarily on high-altitude bombardment. Chennault retired from the United States Army in 1937, and went to work as an aviation adviser and trainer in China. Starting in early 1941, Chennault commanded the 1st American Volunteer Group (nicknamed Flying Tigers). One mission which never came to fruition was the bombing of Japanese cities; the bombers did not arrive before Pearl Harbor. (B-29’s started bombing from China in 1944, but they were not under Chennault’s command.) He headed both the volunteer group and the uniformed U.S. Air Force units that replaced it in 1942. He feuded constantly with General Joseph Stilwell, the U.S. Army commander in China, and helped China’s leader Chiang Kai-shek to convince President Roosevelt to remove Stilwell in 1944. The China-Burma-India theater was strategically essential in order to fix many vital elements of the Imperial Japanese Army on the Chinese mainland to limit their use against Allied forces advancing towards Japan in the two Pacific campaigns. Suffering from hearing loss and lung problems, he ended his American military career in 1937 and became a civilian trainer of Chinese military pilots.

After studying at Louisiana State University, he entered a United States Army officer training program at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana. He went on to serve during World War I in the Army Air Service. Claire Lee Chennault attended Louisiana State University. Claire Lee Chennault is a member of Richest Celebrities and Pilots.