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Chennault

American  
[shuh-nawlt] / ʃəˈnɔlt /

noun

  1. Claire Lee 1890–1958, U.S. Air Force general.


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Chennault founded the Flying Tigers as a group of American pilots flying for China’s air force.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 30, 2023

Months earlier, while browsing a website called The Garden Professors, I noticed that a home gardener named Janet Chennault had posted a query asking where she could buy G.M.O. seeds.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2021

“Serving Chennault was, for Birch, serving the Lord,” Sutton writes.

From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2019

Based on what he learned, Johnson ordered the FBI to tail Chennault and tap the South Vietnamese embassy’s phone.

From Salon • Oct. 5, 2019

On October 31, John Mitchell, Nixon’s campaign manager, picked up the phone and called a woman named Anna Chennault.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin