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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)

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.

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Stormy Rottman

Thank you for taking the time to look at the Stormy article I created and to look into his status. Air Force is right, though I don't know which section, and to be perfectly frank I'm a bit out of my league when it comes to military-related articles. When my family moved to Denver in the 1980s, Stormy was the main weatherman on the station we always watched, and I wanted to see if I could piece together enough about him to at least have a short article about his life on here. There's so much on wikipedia about every move somebody like Paris Hilton makes, but gaping holes in the not too distant past, and he really seemed like an interesting guy on TV, which was my inspiration. My sources were a bit inconsistent, one mentions he served the Flying Tigers as weatherman, another just mentions that he was a briefing officer, and I couldn't even find date of birth (just the year) or if he was married. Sorry to ramble on, but at any rate I do appreciate your assistance. Zephyrnthesky (talk) 02:03, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Since the 'Flying Tigers' name was retained after the American Volunteer Group was disbanded and replaced by uniformed US Army personnel in July 1942, it's near impossible to separate the individuals who served in the mercenary group from those who came over in uniform. (And indeed, five AVG pilots and many more ground personnel joined the USAAF in China.) We can only keep trying to sort them out. AVGbuff (talk) 23:49, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

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