Following World War II he spent two years at Staff College, Camberley and continued his career in the RAF until 1958, when he moved to Australia as Air Adviser to the United Kingdom High Commissioner.
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Upon the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War that August, Chennault became Chiang Kai-shek's chief air adviser, training Chinese Air Force pilots as well as sometimes flying scouting missions in an export Curtiss H-75 fighter.
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In 1921 he joined the British Air Mission as an Air Adviser to the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service and spent the next three years helping in the organisation and training of the Japanese Naval Air Arm.
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Posted as a staff officer at Air Headquarters, Malaya, from November 1945 until February 1946, he served with the Netherlands East Indies Forces for a short period before returning to Malaya as air adviser to the General Officer Commanding.
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The AVG was organized in 1940 when the Chinese government, trying to stop the advance of Japanese invaders, gave their air adviser, retired U . S . Army Capt . Claire Chennault, $ 9 million to recruit pilots and buy aircraft . Chennault recruited nearly 200 ground crew and 100 Navy, Marine and Army pilots who resigned from the U . S . military.
