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Combat organization of the US Army Air Forces

China Air Task Force
Plaque located atU.S. Air Force Academy Cemetery
Active	14 July 1942 - 19 March 1943 Preceded by1st American Volunteer Group Succeeded by14th Air Force
Country	United States
Allegiance	United States
Branch	Air Force
Type	Fighter pilot group
Nickname	The Flying Tigers
Commanders
Notable commanders	Claire Chennault

Military unit

TheChina Air Task Force (CATF) was a combat organization of theUnited States Army Air Forces created on 14 July 1942 under the command of Brig. Gen.Claire Chennault, after theFlying Tigers of the 1stAmerican Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force were disbanded on 4 July of that year. It consisted of the23rd Fighter Group with four squadrons, the assigned74th,75th,76th, and attached16th Fighter Squadrons, plus the11th Bombardment Squadron. It was a subordinate unit of theTenth Air Force in India, commanded by Brig. Gen. Earl Naiden and (from 18 August 1942) by Maj. Gen.Clayton Bissell. "Chennault had no respect for Bissell as a combat airman," wrote his biographer Martha Byrd, and "Bissell had no respect for Chennault as an administrator." Their relationship, she wrote, was ugly.^[1]

On 19 March 1943, the CATF was disbanded and replaced by theFourteenth Air Force, with Chennault, now a major general, in command. In the nine months of its existence, the China Air Task Force had been credited with shooting down 149 Japanese planes, plus 85 probables, with a loss of only 16P-40s. It had flown 65 bombing missions against Japanese targets in China, Burma and Indochina, dropping 311 tons of bombs and losing only oneB-25 bomber.

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^Byrd, p. 169

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Wikimedia Commons has media related toChina Air Task Force.

Byrd, Martha. Chennault: Giving Wings to the Tiger (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1987)
Ford, Daniel. Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers (New York: HarperCollins, 2007)
Bright, Charles, ed. Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Air Force (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992)

United States Air Force

Leadership

Structure

Commands	Reserve Air National Guard Field Operating Agencies Installations
Direct reporting units	District of Washington Operational Test and Evaluation Center USAF Academy
Major commands	ACC AETC AFGSC AFMC AFRC AFSOC AMC PACAF USAFE–AFAFRICA
Numbered Air Forces	First Second Third Fourth Fifth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth Eleventh Twelfth Thirteenth Expeditionary Fifteenth Sixteenth Eighteenth Nineteenth Twentieth Twenty-Second
Wings ANG Groups ANG Squadrons ANG Security Forces Civilian auxiliary:Civil Air Patrol

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training

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History and
traditions

Category

USAAF Fourteenth Air Force inWorld War II

Previously:1st American Volunteer Group (AVG) "Flying Tigers" (Dec 1941-July 1942)China Air Task Force (July 1942-Mar 1943)

Airfields

China	Ankang Chanyi Chengkung Chengtu Chihkiang Hanchung Hankow Hsian Hsingching Huhsien Kanchow Kunming Kwanghan Kweilin Laifeng Laohwangping Loping Liangshan Liuchow Luliang Nanning Peishiyi Pungchacheng Shwangliu Suichwan Tsuyung Yangkai Yunnani

Units

Wings

Groups

Bombardment	308th Bombardment 341st Bombardment 402d Bombardment
Fighter	23d Fighter 33d Fighter 51st Fighter 81st Fighter 311th Fighter 476th Fighter
Transport	443d Troop Carrier

Squadrons

Combat Cargo	1st Combat Cargo 2d Combat Cargo 11th Combat Cargo
Night Fighter	426th Night Fighter 427th Night Fighter
Reconnaissance	21st Photographic Reconnaissance 35th Photographic Reconnaissance
Transport	322d Troop Carrier

United States Army Air Forces

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