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Dec 30, 2018 · The general was three decades older than Chennault, but he left his wife and married the twenty-something journalist in 1947.
Marriage. Chen Xiangmei and Chennault, who was 32 years her senior, married in December 1947. In 1946, Chennault had divorced his first wife, the former Nell Thompson, whom he had wed in 1911 in Winnsboro, Louisiana, and the mother of his eight children, the youngest of whom, Rosemary Chennault Simrall, died in August 2013. [ 12] .
Apr 4, 2018 · She met Gen. Chennault in the early '40s. He was leading the Flying Tigers, a group of American volunteers who traveled to Asia to defend China against the Japanese. The couple were married in...
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Apr 3, 2018 · She met General Chennault in Kunming. He was three decades older, a married father of eight and the hero of the Flying Tigers, who shot down hundreds of Japanese warplanes and kept China’s...
The marriage ended in divorce in 1946, long after his service in China started. He had two daughters by his second wife, Chen Xiangmei (Anna Chennault), a young reporter for the Central News Agency whom he married on December 2, 1947.
Apr 8, 2018 · Anna Chennault, wife of Lt. Gen. Claire L. Chennault of Chennault Air Force Base, died in her home on Friday, March 30. Her daughter, Cynthia Chennault, said her mother, 94, died of complications...
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Apr 6, 2018 · After World War Two ended, Maj Gen Chennault divorced his wife in the US and married Chen Xiangmei. He died in 1958 from cancer. At the time Anna Chennault, as she was known by then, was...
