User talk:AVGbuff

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		message Werkbittt 15:40, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Removal of information regarding McGarry's recovered wreck

The remains are in fact physically located in Chiang Mai at the Tango Squadron Wing 41 Museum in Chiang Mai. Tango Squadron if you are not familiar is a Royally Sponsored organization dedicated to preserving Thai aircraft and displaying. McGarry spent most but not all of the war in prison. Late in the war the OSS had him spirited out of prison by the Thai underground, taken to sea in a fishing boat and rescued by a PBY Catalina.

I realized I hit the wrong persons talk. SorryNYerkes 00:47, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Provocation of Japan?

I just finished Jack Sampson's book on Chenault. I found Chenault admirable, but idly wondered if having Chenault and the AVG in China attacking Japanese assets was ever considered by Japan at the time or historians since as a provocation or one of the reasons for Japan to attack Pearl Harbor. No discussion of this here or in Sampson's book. I haven't tried to enter a wiki discussion before. I'm sorry if I'm doing this wrong. --MajorGeek (talk) 18:24, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, the fact that Americans were coming to Asia "and bringing their planes with them" was mentioned at the September Imperial Conference when Japan made its decision to go to war if certain unlikely conditions weren't met. But note that the AVG's first combat took place twelve days after the Pearl Harbor attack.