John Edgar Slow Horses
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I did. FDR traded the UK for more modern P-40Es and did an off-the -books transfer to the Chinese government who turned them over to the AVG along with a handful of Curtis-Wright CW-21 interceptors. And the AVG never had more than about sixty P-40s operational at any one time. The AVG only had two squadrons, the Panda Bears, and Hells Angels. Sixty fighters is hardly a FLEET.
If Robert W used "fleet" instead of "three squadrons" or "no more than sixty fighters", chock it up his age (88).
He writes better than one would expect, most of the time.
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