(Above: the famous Flying Tigers airplanes, painted with “shark teeth”)

This article provides a good excuse to talk about Japan’s role in WWII vis-a-vis America.

Of course Japan attacked America in late 1941: it had little choice at that point. America was waging economic war on Japan, e.g., it was strangling Japan with an oil and gasoline embargo, and it froze Japanese assets in America. The U.S. also planned to attack Japan before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The U.S. Flying Tigers air squadrons were “born” in late 1940 and early 1941 and they would have attacked the Japanese in Burma and China, but Japan was able to strike at Pearl Harbor first due to various complications in the Tigers’ training program. The Flying Tigers operation in Burma/China would have been illegal since the operation would have involved waging war on a country that America was not yet at war with.

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