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Returning to China, Lee was assigned to Chennault's newly formed Fourteenth Air Force. Serving as a liaison officer between Chennault's
Headquarters and the individual fighter units of Chennault's command, Lee returned to aerial combat operations. Flying the Curtiss P-40
Warhawk and then the North American P-51 Mustang, Lee would be officially credited with the destruction of six and a half Japanese
aircraft in aerial combat.
Beyond his service with two Allied Air Forces, across two vastly different theaters of operation, Colonel Lee's strongest contribution
to the Allied victory was suggestion of the creation of an aerial combat unit that was composed of both American and Chinese pilots and
air crewmen. His suggestion led directly to the creation of the Chinese American Composite Wing. |