Quotes

If the people and the governments in those areas do not wish to fight Communism, we should let them be communized.

Boy, if the Chinese only had 100 good pursuit planes and 100 fair pilots, they'd exterminate the Jap air force!

[on guerrilla warfare] Assuming an outside source of supply, the airplane, the cargo parachute, and the portable radio, 20th-century guerrilla warfare can assume maddening dimensions.

[about Madame Chiang, the wife of Chinese leader Gen. Kai-Shek Chiang I have worked with Madam Chiang through long years of bitter defeat, and through victories that now seem even more bitter because their promise of peace has not been fulfilled. I believe she is one of the world's most accomplished, brilliant and determined women.

[about foreign aid] We send people to distribute that aid. We send some of the dumbest, most ignorant people I have ever encountered. We have to change our whole method of giving aid. We have to get down and contact the people, make friends with them at all levels.

[about the name "The Flying Tigers"] Suddenly, we were swamped with newspaper clippings and we were being called the Flying Tigers. But the insignia we made famous was by no means original with us. Our pilots copied the shark-tooth design on the P-40s from a colored illustration in the "India Illustrated Weekly". Even before that, the German Air Force painted it on some of its Messerschmitts. At any rate, we were somewhat surprised to find ourselves billed under that name.