I didn't expect a Flying Tigers to cause such a big controversy, so let's talk about the Flying Tigers in detail.

On April 13, 1941, Japan and the Soviet Union concluded the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty, when the Soviet Union was under the pressure of German invasion, so it withdrew the Volunteer Air Force to China.

On April 15, 41, Roosevelt signed a presidential decree allowing U.S. reserve officers and retired Navy and Army personnel to participate in the Volunteer Air Force to aid China, and agreed to the Republic of China to purchase P40 Tomahawk fighters, about 100 or so.

At that time, the government of the Republic of China offered a salary of $500 per month for pilots, $750 for squadron leaders, and about $250 for ground crew, plus $30 per month for stipends and travel, 30 days of paid leave per year, and a reward of about $500 for each Japanese plane shot down, and a life insurance of $10,000 for each volunteer who applied for the job, if the pilot-level ground crew was disabled or killed in the course of the mission, Dependents receive a maximum pension equivalent to approximately six months' salary.

It should be noted that at this time, the monthly salary of ground staff in the United States was only about 70 US dollars, and other data were not found.

In August of the same year, the American Volunteer Air Force was officially established, and at that time the support air force recruited about 100 pilots, 150 mechanics and some ground crew.

It should be noted here that in order to recruit enough pilots, the support air force claimed that the pilots' mission was to attack the Japanese bombers without escort, that they did not need to fight the Japanese fighters in close quarters, that they did not have to undertake any offensive missions, that they did not need to fly at night, and that their flight range was limited to the Burma Road area and would not extend to the Chinese battlefield.

Upon the arrival of the first 10 pilots, three of them claimed on the day of their arrival that they had been deceived and demanded immediate return to the United States.

The remaining seven were completely unqualified, including pilots from the navy who had no knowledge of land take-off and landing techniques at all, and one pilot even crashed three planes in succession within a week.

In the course of their subsequent service, the Flying Tigers also had frequent problems, some people often drank heavily in the barracks, and even got drunk in the downtown area of the city, driving indiscriminately, causing traffic accidents.

Some people also took Chinese women back to the barracks for the night.

There is even a collusion with the Chinese to use volunteer trucks in an attempt to smuggle goods from Myanmar into Chinese mainland to make a fortune.

Others allowed American journalists to break into military restricted areas to conduct interviews and photographs, and then publicized volunteer secrets in American newspapers.

By July 1942, the U.S. Volunteer Air Corps had shot down 299 Japanese planes over Burma.

On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

On December 8, the United States declared war on Japan.

It was not until the following year, on July 4, 42, that the Flying Tigers were officially incorporated into the 10th Air Group of the United States in China.

The article does not deny the role of the Flying Tigers, the focus of the last sentence in the previous chapter is "blown into the sky by the United States", it is now August 3, 2020, we have just closed the U.S. Embassy in Chengdu, and the United States is using the Flying Tigers to advocate their help to us, so I mentioned it in the article.

I know that writing like this will definitely make some book friends feel uncomfortable, but I still insist that the Flying Tigers are mercenaries, and I did not erase the contribution of the Flying Tigers because the Republic of China paid money, but I will not change my position and be grateful to the Flying Tigers because of a few words of praise from the US Embassy.

Just like a book friend said, during the First World War, Europe also paid for the employment of Chinese laborers, but we, the descendants of Chinese European laborers, did not ask Europe to be grateful to Dade for this.

In a word, I won't lick you, and you don't kidnap me because of morality.

Above, Jin represents my personal attitude.