Welcome Scott! One quick thing though; although the AVG was started and formed in the months before the U.S. officially became a participant in WW2; its first battle against the Japanese occurred after Pearl Harbor; On December 20th, 1941. You probably already know that but I've noticed that over the years a lot of people don't know this; they think the P-40s were fighting the Oscars and Nates BEFORE Pearl Harbor. I think a lot of this is due to the true but somewhat misleading statement that "The AVG was formed to fight the Japanese in China before the U.S. entered the war"; which is frequently thrown out there when talking about the AVG; without a follow up saying that the actual fights started AFTER December 7th.
That aside; I'd LOVE to see some AARs of P-40s fighting Oscars and/or Nates and/or Sally's, etc. in the skies over Burma!
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