It was pretty pushy of us to send a few flyers to Burma. That's probably why the Japanese invaded China in the first place!!! /s
A few flyers...and a little plant to assemble planes at an airfield near Rangoon...
Actually, “we” didn’t. Chennault was hired by the Chinese to put it together. Pilots who volunteered had to resign their commissions.
Oops.
I just realized that we never got around to discussing the effects of the Sino-American Cooperative Organization on the war. There was an old China Marine whom I used to do work for that had some fascinating stories about that. I believe that he died maybe five or six years ago.
After all these decades he was always alert and his eyes never missed any detail.