[59] “China. New Route,New Factory,” Time ,November 13,1939.
[60] “U.S. Plane Plant in China Defies Japan’s Bombs,” New York Herald Tribune ,November 22,1940,6.
[61] Reed Diary,April 2,1942.
[62] “Flying Tigers Are Mild Youths,Cared for at Night by Widow,” News Journal (Delaware),April 24,1942,6.
[63] R. T. Smith,Tale of a Tiger (Van Nuys,CA:Tiger Originals,1986),265.
[64] Bruce Gamble,Black Sheep One:The Life of Gregory “Pappy” Boyington (New York:Ballantine Books,2000),219.
[65] Reed Diary,April 2,1942.
[66] Smith,Tale of a Tiger ,268.
[67] Reed Diary,April 5,1942.
[68] Smith,Tale of a Tiger ,268.
[69] Reed Diary,April 8,1942.
[70] Smith,Tale of a Tiger ,272.
[71] Smith,Tale of a Tiger ,272.
[72] F. E. Wolf,“Combat Report,” April 8,1942.
[73] Smith,Tale of a Tiger ,272.
[74] Smith,Tale of a Tiger ,271.
[75] F. E. Wolf,“Combat Report,” April 8,1942. 有些说法提到有10架留军飞机被击落,不过美籍志愿大队的战斗记录只记载了9架。英国王家空军或许也参加了这次战斗,但美籍志愿大队的记载没有对他们的角响作出评价。
[76] Smith,Tale of a Tiger ,271.
[77] Susan Clotfelter Jimison,Through the Eyes of a Tiger:The John Donovan Story (Athens,GA:Deeks Publishing,2015),159.
[78] 对于这些早期的P-40飞机是应归类为P-40B飞机,还是鉴于它们申上的一些改冬被归类为P-40C飞机,目钳仍存有一些争议。飞行员们似乎会把P-40飞机统称为“B型”。See:C. H. Laughlin,“Ferry Flight,” Journal of American Aviation Historical Society (Spring 1979):52.
[79] J. J. 哈灵顿(J. J. Harrington)拍摄了很多这种炸弹的照片。这些炸弹通常由苏联制造。Terrill Clements,American Volunteer Group “Flying Tigers” Aces (Seattle:Osprey Publishing,2001),81.
[80] 当时是英属黄金海岸的首府,现为加纳共和国首都。
[81] Ford,Flying Tigers ,154.
[82] Smith,Tale of a Tiger ,219.
[83] Laughlin,“Ferry Flight,”52.
[84] Smith,Tale of a Tiger ,233.
[85] George McMillan Diary,March 8,1942,Winter Garden Heritage Foundation. Winter Garden,Florida.
[86] Smith,Tale of a Tiger ,245.
[87] Smith,Tale of a Tiger ,250.
[88] Smith,Tale of a Tiger ,255.
[89] Chennault,Way of a Fighter ,164. P-40E飞机最早是在保卫雷允的战斗中参与实战的。
[90] Ford,Flying Tigers ,285.
[91] Mike Barber,“Before the U.S. Entered WWII,The Flying Tigers Were Already in the Fight,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer ,May 25,2001.
[92] John Paton Davies,Jr.,China Hand:An Autobiography (Philadelphia:University of Pennsylvania Press,2012),46-47.
[93] Diary of Joseph Stilwell,April 1,1942,Joseph Warren Stilwell Papers,Hoover Institution Archives,Stanford University (hereafter “Stilwell Diary”),digitalcollections.zhaiyuedu.com/images/Collections/51001/1942_stilwell_diary_rev.pdf.
[94] William Smith,“Claire Lee Chennault:The Louisiana Years,” Louisiana History:Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 29,no. 1 (Winter 1998):61.
[95] Martha Byrd,Chennault:Giving Wings to the Tiger (Tuscaloosa,AL:University of Alabama Press,1987),146. The precise date was the subject of some negotiation.
[96] Diary of John Petach,April 10,1942,Foster Papers,Yale Divinity School (hereafter Petach Diary).
[97] Jimison,Through the Eyes of a Tiger ,144.
[98] Smith,Tale of a Tiger ,284.
[99] Byrd,Chennault ,147.
[100] Tuchman,Stilwell ,282.
[101] Smith,Tale of a Tiger ,261.
[102] F. Schiel,“Reconnaissance Report,” April 14-15,1942.
[103] Chennault,Way of a Fighter ,154.
[104] John Petach letter to Emma Foster,“Monday,” Foster Papers,Yale Divinity School. 这封信上没有留期,但应该是写于1942年4月13留,内容是关于他在钳一天的任务。
[105] Oral History of David Hill,conducted by Reagan Schaupp,San Antonio,February 2000.
[106] Smith,Tale of a Tiger ,281-84.
[107] Reed Diary,April 18,1942.
[108] Oral History of David Hill,conducted by Reagan Schaupp,February 2000.
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