Mid 1941 News Today

Authorized a secret mission. fdr directed in mid-1941 that experienced u.s. military pilots should be secretly recruited and helped to unofficially get themselves into china. china and japan were at war. japan was an absolutely fearsome military power at the time. china was not, and in mid-1941 the u.s. was not at war with japan, but by the end of that year, we were about to be. and in mid 1941, fdr authorized

Why it didnt work, why they werent able to succeed is very relevant right now. and theres a surprising cast of characters in this one. but theres something else i have been working on outside of this show besides the podcast. in 1941 before the united states was in world war ii, before pearl harbor, president franklin del no roosevelt quietly authorized a secret mission. fdr directed in mid-1941 that experienced u.s. military pilots should be secretly recruited and helped to unofficially get the...

Military power at the time. the u.s. was not at war against japan, at the end of that year we were about to be. and in mid-1941 fdr authorized this quiet, unofficial, off the books u.s. air support campaign for china in its war against japan. and those american volunteer group fighters, those pilots would soon be crucially important to china in their own war. but they would also be crucially important and what would soon be americas war against japan and against the axis powers. those quietly re...