Ext. Rare Volume 4 CAT Bulletin, Orig. Owned by Claire Chennault's Secretary

This is a bound copy of the CAT (Civil Air Transport) Bulletin, Volume 4, Numbers 1 through 1This volume includes two 10-1/2" x 15" color posters! CAT was a Chinese airline established in 1946 by famed General and leader of the American Volunteer Group, Claire Chennault, along with Whiting Willauer. The company's airplanes, many of them piloted by former Flying Tigers, first flew humanitarian airlifts and then became integral in Chiang Kai-Shek's efforts against the Communists in China, eventually evacuating Chinese citizens to Taiwan after the fall of his government. In 1950 the CIA acquired CAT and used the airline for secret missions to China even though on the surface it appeared to be solely a civilian airline. These bound volumes originally belonged to Eve Myers, who was Claire Chennault's personal secretary and what appears to be the CAT office manager after he passed away in 1958 (Eve is shown in the last two photos above). CAT became Air America in 195Each volume has several photographs (some of Chennault), human interest stories, company information and tons of super "CAT" cartoon advertisements. We have several other bound volumes representing different years available for sale separately: please see links at the bottom of this page.

Published 1951 (Korean War era).

Volume 4 (No. 1-11): includes two color posters. Approximately 10-1/2" in height and 7-5/8" in width and 1-1/8" in thickness.

Embossed cloth-bound cover, paper.

Glued binding.

VOL. NO. 1 Ð VOL. 4 NO. 11 JAN. 1951 Ð DEC. 1951 Eve Myers (embossed upon cover).

This is from a United States Army Air Forces collection which we will be listing more of over the next few months. VFJX08 LABGEX8/13 SAJJJX10/14

7 (Very Fine): The book is in very fine overall condition: some wear to cover, some partial separation from the binding in spots; yellowing of endpapers.

As with all my artifacts, this piece is guaranteed to be original, as described.