* Joe was the dachshund of General Claire Lee Chennault, commander of the Flying Tigers and then the China Air Task Force of the US Army Air Forces, and became the mascot of those organizations.

The Gilbert welcome sign recognizes that General Claire Chennault lived there for a time as a youth.

Lieutenant General Claire Lee Chennault ( September 6, 1893 – July 27, 1958 ), was an American military aviator.

Time magazine cover of Major General Claire Lee Chennault, U. S. A. A. F, commander of 14th Air Force in China, with a Burmese tiger with wings.

Life cover displays Brigadier General Claire Lee Chennault ; born in Texas, 1890 ; enlisted in Army Air Force, 1917 ; barnstormed around country in Army's flying circus, 1922 ; retired because of deafness, went to China to plan aerial defense, 1937 ; commanded A. V. G., 1941 ; made chief of U. S. Air Force in China, 1941.

General Claire Lee Chennault: A Guide to His Papers in the Hoover Institution Archives.

Yuma AFB was renamed on 13 October 1956 as Vincent Air Force Base, the installation was named for Brigadier General Clinton D. " Casey " Vincent, one of Major General Claire Chennault's top fighter leaders in the China-Burma Theater and the second youngest General Officer in U. S. Air Force history, receiving his star at the age of 29.

He later served in China as chief of staff for General Claire Chennault of the China Air Task Force — precursor of the Fourteenth Air Force — then from 1943 to 1945 in the Southwest Pacific as chief of staff for the Fifth Air Force's Bomber Command.

From there, the American Flying Tigers led by Brigadier General Claire Lee Chennault, had inflicted heavy damage on Japanese troops both in China and Formosa and could launch air strikes against the home islands of Japan.

These forces included the United States Twentieth Air Force partaking in Operation Matterhorn and the Fourteenth Air Force operated by General Claire Chennault.

Vice-Admiral Oscar C. Badger, General Claire Chennault, and Brigadier General Francis Brink also testified that the arms embargo was a significant factor in the loss of China.

Château de Châlus-Chabrol, Châlus, Haute-Vienne, 24 February 1734-Paris, 7 July 1821, daughter of Gabriel de Châlus, seigneur de Sansac, and Claire Gérault de Solages ), one of the ladies-in-waiting of Elizabeth, Duchess of Parma and Chamberlain-Major of Princess Marie Adélaïde of France, and his father was either her husband ( m. 10 July 1749 ), a nobleman of Spanish remote descent Don Jean François, 1er duc de Narbonne-Lara Grandee of Spain 1st Class, Lieutenant General of the Army, Commander in Name of the King of the Dioceses of Castres, Albi and Lavaur, 1st Gentleman of the House of H. R. H.

Pratt is best known for her roles in daytime television as Anne Logan on General Hospital ( 1978 – 1982 ), Claire Ramsey on Guiding Light ( 1983 – 1986, 2000 – 2002 ), and Barbara Montgomery Cudahy on All My Children ( 1987 – 1991, 1995, 1997, 1998, February 9-July 12, 2007 ).

Covert flights for the military were not uncommon throughout the airline's history, given its roots in Civil Air Transport ( CAT ), as with its sister airline Air America, originally owned by General Claire Lee Chennault, commander of the Flying Tigers fighter squadron in Southeast Asia.

* Claire Labine, head writer of Ryan's Hope, One Life to Live, General Hospital, Where The Heart Is, Guiding Light

* Fred Claire ( General manager, Los Angeles Dodgers )

Two of his personal enemies, Undersecretary Jean-Louis Bréton ( who resented that Estienne had taken over his project ) and Colonel Emile Rimailho ( the co-inventor, with Deport and General St. Claire Deville, of the famous French 75 mm field gun ), cooperated to build the ill-fated St Chamond tank.

) of the United States, which was commanded by General Claire Chennault.

Major General Claire Chennault of World War II " Flying Tiger " fame taught at the school.

* 1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( which is refused upon receipt ).

* 1865 – American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken – Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate General Robert E. Lee to retreat.

* 1865 – American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.

Lee taught " It is not to be thought that every word spoken by the General Authorities is inspired, or that they are moved upon by the Holy Ghost in everything they speak and write.

* 1862 – American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the Union Major General Ambrose E. Burnside.

An alternative view launched by R. Lee Ermey, on his television series Mail Call, disputes this, saying that the vehicle was designed for specific duties, and was never referred to as " General Purpose " and it is highly unlikely that the average jeep-driving GI would have been familiar with this designation.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.

* 1864 – Arlington National Cemetery is established when around Arlington Mansion ( formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee ) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U. S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

In June 1862, in his most successful move, Davis assigned General Robert E. Lee to replace the wounded Joseph E. Johnston in command of the Army of Northern Virginia, the main Confederate Army in the Eastern Theater.

General Lee commended his cavalry, which " effectually guarded our right, annoying the enemy and embarrassing his movements by hanging on his flank, and attacking when the opportunity occurred.

He was named in honor of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who was his first cousin, four times removed.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.

The first simple, two-pole magnetron was developed in 1920 by Albert Hull at General Electric's Research Laboratories ( Schenectady, New York ), as an outgrowth of his work on the magnetic control of vacuum tubes in an attempt to work around the patents held by Lee De Forest on electrostatic control.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run – Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station – Confederate troops under the command of General Robert E. Lee fail to drive the American Union Army completely out of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Her first cousin once removed, also named Lucy Grymes, married Henry Lee II ( who was in fact Peyton Randolph's first cousin once removed ), and was the mother of Henry " Light Horse Harry " Lee, who was the father of Confederate General Robert Edward Lee.

Union General Ulysses S. Grant's campaigns bore down on Lee in 1864 and 1865, and despite inflicting heavy casualties, Lee was unable to force back Grant.

Lee was born at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the son of Major General Henry Lee III ( Light Horse Harry ) ( 1756 – 1818 ), Governor of Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill Carter ( 1773 – 1829 ).

With Chennault, the Chinese President ordered Chinese Air Force General Pang-Tsu Mow to assist Chennault at the Chinese Embassy in Washington DC.

How to obtain the shopping list of aircraft, aviation supplies, volunteers and funds for the Bank of China were discussed in a meeting held at the home of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Saturday afternoon, December 21, 1940, with Captain Chennault, Dr. T. V. Soong, and General Pang-Tsu Mow.

In 1948, Chennault would make a controversial claim that General Clayton Bissell had not informed him of the upcoming raid, and that the raiders took unnecessary casualties because of it.

Throughout the war Chennault was engaged in a bitter dispute with the American ground commander, General Joseph Stilwell.

In 1951, a now-retired Major General Chennault testified and provided written statements to the Senate Joint Committee on Armed Forces and Foreign Relations, which was investigating the causes of the fall of China in 1949 to Communist forces.

Together with Army General Albert C. Wedemeyer, Navy Vice Admiral Oscar C. Badger II, and others, Chennault stated that the Truman administration's arms embargo was a key factor in the loss of morale to the Nationalist armies.

Chennault was promoted to Lieutenant General in the U. S. Air Force, several days before his death on July 27, 1958 at the Ochsner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans.

The ceremony was headed by retired Brigadier General Jimmy Stewart, and a portrait of Chennault by cartoonist Milton Caniff was unveiled.

In July 1942, the AVG was replaced by the U. S. Army 23rd Fighter Group, which was later absorbed into the U. S. 14th Air Force with General Chennault as commander.

Old Leatherface of the Flying Tigers: The Story of General Chennault.

With General Chennault: The Story of the Flying Tigers.

Chennault was appointed the commander and promoted to Major General.

As General Chennault had predicted, supplies carried over the Ledo Road at no time approached tonnage levels of supplies airlifted monthly into China over the Hump.