1943-03-10

U.S. Fourteenth Air Force formed in China

mainland ChinaU.S. Fourteenth Air Force formed in China is a air war record, situated in the phase connecting the China front to the Pacific War through logistics, air war, and political warfare. It belongs to the wider reshaping of the mainland Chinese front and political map.

Other events in this phase

China Wartime Endgame132
  1. Sheng Shicai’s Soviet relationship deteriorates
  2. Soviet influence recedes in Xinjiang
  3. Henan famine relief crisis
  4. U.S. Fourteenth Air Force formed in ChinaCurrent record
  5. Hump airlift expansion
  6. Soviet advisers expelled from Xinjiang
  7. Sino-American Cooperative Organization established
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Wartime Position

the attritional phase where rear capitals, occupation rule, guerrilla bases, and Allied supply routes coexisted

U.S. Fourteenth Air Force formed in China is a air war record, situated in the phase connecting the China front to the Pacific War through logistics, air war, and political warfare. It belongs to the wider reshaping of the mainland Chinese front and political map.

Reading The Record

Placed against nearby events, the location, date, and actors around mainland China clarify changes in front lines and governing practice.

General Claire Lee Chennault, 1943 and Wikimedia Commons · General Claire Lee Chennault, 1943 provide both visual evidence and source context for the event.

Media

General Claire Lee Chennault, 1943Visual recordGeneral Claire Lee Chennault, 1943A 1943 portrait of Claire Lee Chennault, anchoring the command shift behind the Fourteenth Air Force in China. It anchors the geography and surrounding context of “U.S. Fourteenth Air Force formed in China.”

Source Trail

SourceWikimedia Commons · General Claire Lee Chennault, 1943Open source