War Stories Ii (2013)
War Stories Ii
“A small group of U.S. volunteers—an air force called the Flying Tigers—had been helping the Chinese in their skirmishes with the Japanese since 1938. Few Americans knew very much about them until five months after Pearl Harbor, following the Doolittle Raid.
When Jimmy Doolittle planned that first American air raid against Japan, he hoped that his sixteen B-25 aircrews would be able to land safely in China on airfields controlled by Chiang Kai-shek’s National Chinese Army. It was a logical assum...ption. Chiang was an American ally in the war against Japan and had been fighting the Imperial Army since soldiers marching beneath the banner of the Rising Sun had invaded his homeland in 1931. Better still from Doolittle’s perspective, a good number of American “advisors” were also in China—and many of them had been there for years.
Most histories mark the start of World War II as 1 September 1939, when Adolf Hitler’s legions invaded Poland, but Chiang and the Chinese people knew better.MoreLess
When Jimmy Doolittle planned that first American air raid against Japan, he hoped that his sixteen B-25 aircrews would be able to land safely in China on airfields controlled by Chiang Kai-shek’s National Chinese Army. It was a logical assum...ption. Chiang was an American ally in the war against Japan and had been fighting the Imperial Army since soldiers marching beneath the banner of the Rising Sun had invaded his homeland in 1931. Better still from Doolittle’s perspective, a good number of American “advisors” were also in China—and many of them had been there for years.
Most histories mark the start of World War II as 1 September 1939, when Adolf Hitler’s legions invaded Poland, but Chiang and the Chinese people knew better.MoreLess
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