No those were private volunteers. They were not official by any means. What you're referring to is the Eagle Squadron, which was an all volunteer American RAF Squadron. The other way American volunteer pilots were integrated was through the RCAF. The pilot would cross the border, join up and be officially considered Canadian until the US entered the war against Germany. They were then repatriated to the US forces.
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Kris Sisk <[email protected]> wrote: > >>I thought that the reason why the US entered the 2nd world war is that >>the Japanese attacked the US. Not to prevent the slaughter of >>civilians. >> >> >>> > > We had been sending pilots to Britain to help out for some time by that > point. We may not have officially been in the war, but we were involved. > What's more, Pearl Harbor was prompted by Japan's knowledge that it was just > a matter of time before we entered the war. Basically, they knew we were > coming in and they wanted to make sure it happened on thier terms. > > Also an interesting little tidbit: Neither the Emperor of Japan nor the > Japanese diplomats at the time knew about the attack till after it happened. > Only their navy was in on the plan. Strange as that sounds to us, it wasn't > that uncommon in pre-WW2 Japan for the military to go off on thier own like > that. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318494 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
