CHENNAULT CLAIRE Autograph Letter Signed

Sale 1912 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 1,840

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000

CHENNAULT, CLAIRE. Autograph Letter Signed, "C", to his friend Peggy Rex, detailing his trip to China and describing the conditions in which the American pilots were living. 1 page, single 4to sheet; usual folds.<\t>New York, 20 June 1943

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" . . . Hopped the 'Hump' the next morning in fairly good weather and stepped out here [there] in time for lunch. The place sure looked good to me and, judging from numerous remarks, I looked good to it . . . The following Monday I packed the records and took them over to my eastern base where the boys live rather primitively - Heat, dirt, flies, mosquitos, etc. - and did they have fun! I left Friday and your records were still going round and round . . . They are the boys who blasted the Jap ground army in the recent campaign west of Ichang and they are still ready to do any other job of a similar nature . . ."<