National History Day, Claire Chennault: The First American Volunteer Group

Birthdays today :
The founder of the "Flying Tigers" (American Volunteer Group), fighter pilots who fought the Japanese in China the year before the U.S. declared war on Japan, was born September 6, 1893, in Commerce, Texas. He died of cancer on July 27, 1958.

Chennault was descended from eighteenth century Huguenot immigrants, related to Sam Houston on his mother's side, and related to Robert E. Lee on his father's side. He was raised and educated in Louisiana, where his mother died when he was five. He graduated from Louisiana State Normal College after attending Louisiana State University.
http://www.famoustexans.com/claireleechennault.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Lee_Chennault