re: Vader’s Model Desk: Curtis P-40 Warhawk

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Appreciate the history lesson, very interesting. Just stopped by wiki to read a little about the AVG--fascinating story, especially the part which you referenced about them forming and training in China almost a year before Pearl Harbor. Thought the following was interesting as well: The AVG was created by an executive order of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. He did not speak English, however, and Chennault never learned to speak Chinese. As a result, all communications between the two men were routed through Soong Mei-ling, "Madame Chiang" as she was known to Americans, and she was designated the group's "honorary commander."

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