[Ansteorra] Current History

[Bob Dewart]

The Flying Tigers were more like civilian contractors working for the 
Chinise.  America had no official involment till after Dec 7. After that 
they were inducted to the Army Aircorp.

Gilli
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Gilbert" <niklas at pbgilbert.net>
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Current History


> If your talking about the "Sighted Sub, sank same", yes. She fired the
> first shots of WWII for the US (official shots, actual there were some
> exchanges in China between US forces and the Japanese plus the Flying
> Tigers and the Americans that volunteered to fly in the RAF, RCAF and
> the RAAF).
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> Niklas
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> Mike Wyvill wrote:
>> Are you referring to USS Ward?
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