Aviation, Engineering, Military, Military Sciences 

Civil Air Transport (CAT), founded in China after World War II by Claire Chennault and Whiting Willauer, was initially a commercial carrier specializing in air freight. Its role quickly changed as CAT became first a paramilitary adjunct of the Nationalist Chinese Air Force, then the CIA's secret "air force" in Korea, then "the most shot-at airline in the world" in French Indochina, and eventually becoming reorganized as Air America at the height of the Vietnam War. William M. Leary's detailed operational history of CAT sets the story in the perspective of Asian and Cold War geopolitics and shows how CAT allowed the CIA to operate with a level of flexibility and secrecy that it would not have attained through normal military or commercial air transportation. - from Amzon 

CONTENTS

1. Origins Of CAT ..............................................P. 3

2. CNRRA Air Transport .....................................P. 22

3. CAT And Civil War .........................................P. 38

4. Siege Of Taiyuan ..........................................P. 54

5. The Chennault Plan .......................................P. 67

6. OPC And CAT ...............................................P. 84

7. The CIA Buys And Airline ...............................P. 100

8. The Korean War ...........................................P. 113

9. Covert Operations ........................................P. 127

10. Managerial Turmoil .......................................P. 144

11. French Indochina .........................................P. 156

12. A New Regime .............................................P. 169

13. Dienbienphu ................................................P. 180

14. End Of Anera ...............................................P. 195

15. Conclusion ..................................................P. 225