World War II

CRASH LANDING

FALLEN TIGERS The Fate of America’s Missing Airmen in China during World War II

By Daniel Jackson. 310 pp. The University Press of Kentucky, 2021. $29.95.

AMONG THE VOLUMINOUS archives the U.S. Army Air Forces generated during World War II are thousands of Missing Air Crew Reports (MACR). Carefully drafted and updated at various command levels,, accomplished U.S. Air Force pilot and historian Daniel Jackson uses MACRs filed on the 1,832 American airmen lost in combat over China as a window into the under-examined China-Burma-India Theater.

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