Skip to main content
Claire Lee Chennault

Claire Lee Chennault

American aviatorWikipedia

Search complete. 10 mentions across 10 episodes found for "Claire Lee Chennault".

Oct 24, 2026

JFK The Enduring Secret

JFK The Enduring Secret

Episode 359 Ground Zero: JMWAVE And The Cuban Question Miniseries Part 1

Oct 24 · 1 Mention

Jeff CrudeleHOST
6:43
Pauly was a businessman, an aviation guy.
Jeff CrudeleHOST
6:46
And back in 1940 and 1941, before Pearl Harbor, he worked with Claire Chenault on the American Volunteer Group.
Jeff CrudeleHOST
6:55
You probably know them as the Flying Tigers.
Jeff CrudeleHOST
6:59
He came out of that war with money, with standing, and with friends in high places.
Lichtman LIVE

Lichtman LIVE

Ramaswamy Hits a NEW LOW: Controversial Amy Acton Attack Ad Backfires?

Oct 23 · 1 Mention

Allan LichtmanHOST
48:03
Richard Nixon, then a private citizen, running for president but had no official position, understood that if the Johnson administration reached a peace agreement, that his opponent, Hubert Humphrey, the vice president, would almost surely defeat him.
Allan LichtmanHOST
48:21
So as a private citizen in the middle of a war, you know, for the U.S., a much more destructive war than the Ukraine war, for the U.S., tens of thousands of casualties, hires Anna Chenault, the widow of Claire Chenault, who ran the Flying Tigers in Asia during World War II.
Allan LichtmanHOST
48:41
She had very strong connections with the South Vietnamese government, and he sent her down to Saigon to try to stop, to thwart the peace negotiations, saying, wait, when Nixon gets elected, you'll make a much better deal.
Allan LichtmanHOST
48:58
Lyndon Johnson knew this happened because he had tapped the phones.

Unknown podcast

The Vought F4U Corsair, the Bent-Wing Bird the Navy Turned Down, and the Marine Pilots Who Built Its Legend Over the Solomon Islands

Oct 20 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
6:24
He had a complicated personal history that followed him around.
Tail DraggerHOST
6:27
He had flown with the American Volunteer Group in China before the war, and had an equally complicated relationship with the group's commander, Claire Chenault.
Tail DraggerHOST
6:34
None of that mattered over Rabaul.
Tail DraggerHOST
6:36
Boynton understood the Corsair the way some pilots just understand an airplane, the way it becomes an extension of their instincts.
Age of Conquest: A Kings and Generals Podcast

Age of Conquest: A Kings and Generals Podcast

3.224 Fall and Rise of China: Changsha: the Graveyard of Japanese Invaders

Oct 19 · 1 Mention

Craig WatsonHOST
11:28
Her interest in the matter was no passing whim.
Craig WatsonHOST
11:31
On the eve of the war, she had become Secretary General of the Chinese Aeronautical Affairs Commission, hired the American advisor Roy Holbrook, who in turn recommended Claire Chennault to help her build and train the force.
Craig WatsonHOST
11:44
At the war's outbreak, the air force nominally counted about five hundred aircraft, but fewer than one hundred truly combat-ready ones.
Craig WatsonHOST
11:51
Yet it had dared to meet Japan's nearly one thousand strong air arm regardless.
Fourth Reich Archaeology

Fourth Reich Archaeology

#118 - She Harvey Oswald, Part 11

Oct 16 · 1 Mention

DonHOST
78:39
Editorial here.
DonHOST
78:40
She's- they're talking about Claire Chennault, the head of the Flying Tigers, right? This was the paramilitary group that later became highly active in opium smuggling and trafficking and the sort of predecessor drug wars leading up to the US involvement in Indochina.
DonHOST
79:04
I guess he worked with Chennault, but he worked separately.
DonHOST
79:07
He was sent into China to help train.

Unknown podcast

Trump’s Quiet Signals to Xi on Taiwan

Oct 16 · 1 Mention

speaker_0NARRATOR
3:03
The Flying Tigers illustrate this distinction.
speaker_0NARRATOR
3:06
Officially named the American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force, the unit was organized by Claire Chennault, a retired US Army Air Corps captain who advised Chiang.
speaker_0NARRATOR
3:16
After the communist victory on the mainland in 1949, Chiang's government retreated to Taiwan.
speaker_0NARRATOR
3:22
Trump could hardly invoke the Republic of China alongside Xi without triggering a diplomatic crisis, but he didn't need to.

Unknown podcast

Trump’s Quiet Signals to Xi on Taiwan

Oct 16 · 1 Mention

speaker_0NARRATOR
3:03
The Flying Tigers illustrate this distinction.
speaker_0NARRATOR
3:06
Officially named the American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force, the unit was organized by Claire Chennault, a retired US Army Air Corps captain who advised Chiang.
speaker_0NARRATOR
3:16
After the Communist victory on the mainland in 1949, Chiang's government retreated to Taiwan.
speaker_0NARRATOR
3:22
Trump could hardly invoke the Republic of China alongside Xi without triggering a diplomatic crisis, but he didn't need to.

Unknown podcast

The Vought F4U Corsair, the Bent-Wing Bird the Navy Gave to the Marines, and the Fighter That Owned the Sky Over Guadalcanal

Oct 14 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
5:53
By the standards of the Pacific Theater, thirty might as well have been ancient.
Tail DraggerHOST
5:57
He had a drinking problem the Marine Corps officially didn't know about, a divorce, a stint flying with Claire Chennault's American Volunteer Group in China, and a mouth that had gotten him grounded more than once.
Tail DraggerHOST
6:07
He also had a growing kill count between his six Flying Tiger victories and the ones piling up with the Marines, and he was chasing the all-time American ace record of twenty-six confirmed kills set by Eddie Rickenbacker in the First World War.
Tail DraggerHOST
6:20
VMF-214 was assembled partly from pilots shuffled around the theater, orphaned from other units, some of them fresh from training.

Unknown podcast

The Grumman F6F Hellcat, the Akutan Zero the Navy Dragged Out of an Alaskan Bog, and the Fighter Designed Around the Enemy's Own Weaknesses

Oct 13 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
1:05
The Mitsubishi A6M, designated the Zero Allied pilots who had faced it over China, had been trying to warn Washington for years.
Tail DraggerHOST
1:13
Claire Chennault, flying with the Chinese Air Force before the war started, had written detailed reports on Zero tactics and performance.
Tail DraggerHOST
1:20
Some of those reports sat on desks and gathered dust.
Tail DraggerHOST
1:22
The bureaucracy moved slow, and meanwhile the Zero's reputation grew fast, because the reputation was being written in the wreckage of Allied aircraft from the Philippines to the Dutch East Indies.

Unknown podcast

The Chance Vought F4U Corsair, the Inverted Gull Wing, and the Marine Corps Legend the Navy Could Not Land on a Carrier

Oct 7 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
8:29
The pilot most identified with the Corsair in the public mind is Gregory Boyington .
Tail DraggerHOST
8:34
He had flown with Claire Chennault's American Volunteer Group in China before the war, came back to the Marine Corps, and in August of 1943 took command of a group of experienced pilots waiting for reassignment.
Tail DraggerHOST
8:45
Pilots pulled from disbanded squadrons, men without a home unit.
Tail DraggerHOST
8:48
He organized them into Marine Fighter Attack Squadron, 214, VMF 214.

We value your privacy

We use cookies to understand how you use our platform and to improve your experience. Click “Accept All” to consent, or “Decline non-essential” to opt out of non-essential cookies. Read our Privacy Policy.