About This Stamp
The Postal Service honored Claire Lee Chennault, a U.S. Air Force general and pioneer air tactician, with a commemorative stamp issued on September 6, 1990, in Monroe, Louisiana.
Chennault became air advisor to the Chinese government in 1937. He built an air force by recruiting fliers from the United States for the American Volunteer Group, later known as the Flying Tigers.
Designed by Chris Calle, the stamps were engraved through the intaglio process by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and issued in panes of 100.
Stamp Art Director
Derry Noyes
For more than 40 years Derry Noyes has designed and provided art direction for close to 800 United States postage stamps and stamp products. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Hampshire College and a master of fine arts degree from Yale University.
Noyes worked as a graphics designer at Beveridge and Associates, a Washington, D.C., firm, until 1979 when she established her own design firm, Derry Noyes Graphics. Her clients have included museums, corporations, foundations, and architectural and educational institutions. Her work has been honored by American Illustration, the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington, Communication Arts, Critique magazine, Graphis, Creativity International, and the Society of Illustrators.
Before becoming an art director for the U.S. Postal Service, she served as a member of the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee from 1981 to 1983.
Noyes is a resident of Washington, D.C.