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A plan was developed to confuse the American press as well as our enemies abroad and keep the Russian AVG secret.
That's why we haven't heard of it. Cool though! Russians created the same type of smoke screens to send pilots and trainers to help in the Spanish Civil War.
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There were some US liasions and techinical reps. accompanying the Lend Lease supply. Possibly several hundred individuals. And, there were US military attaches or liasions in the USSR. Their story has not been widely published. This air unit appears out of nothing tho, so I'm skeptical. Any colaborating evidence, particularly from USAAF records?
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Originally posted by Tom D View PostHere's what a friend of mine said about it:
Looks like an April Fool joke or some sort of "Internet Pilot"
There was no 7th Air Force in 1941...
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http://www.777avg.com/killboard/
Take look at this page. It and remarks on other pages of the site indicate this is a site created by game players, of some sort of computer air combat game.
A web search of the names on the pilot roster suggests the individuals named are probablly realtively young game players & not WWII veterans.
If I had more than ten minutes to spare following the links posted on that web page would reveal a lot. So would a much more thurough examination of the other pages on it.Last edited by Carl Schwamberg; 19 Apr 08, 08:25.
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Yes, this is just the homepage of a virtual squadron in the flight sim "IL-2 Forgotten battle".
It's NOT an attempt to claim such a squadron ever existed, but the the unit history is just a kind of "role-playing" to try to give the members an explaination why they are flying for the Soviet side even though they are American.Snefens
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Originally posted by Snefens View PostYes, this is just the homepage of a virtual squadron in the flight sim "IL-2 Forgotten battle".
It's NOT an attempt to claim such a squadron ever existed, but the the unit history is just a kind of "role-playing" to try to give the members an explaination why they are flying for the Soviet side even though they are American.
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Originally posted by Snefens View PostYes, this is just the homepage of a virtual squadron in the flight sim "IL-2 Forgotten battle".
It's NOT an attempt to claim such a squadron ever existed, but the the unit history is just a kind of "role-playing" to try to give the members an explaination why they are flying for the Soviet side even though they are American.
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Well, I'll grant you that it's not always clear what the purpose of such sites are.
I happen to be part of a virtual squadron myself, where we have take the "identity" of a historic Finnish squadron, Lentolaivue 34, http://www.virtualpilots.fi/LLv34/ . The unit history page on our site is about the REAL LLv34's history though.Snefens
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Originally posted by Emil_G View PostA plan was developed to confuse the American press as well as our enemies abroad and keep the Russian AVG secret.
That's why we haven't heard of it. Cool though! Russians created the same type of smoke screens to send pilots and trainers to help in the Spanish Civil War.
When Stalin was desperate, he even offered to let British or US ground units fight in the USSR under their own officers, according to Alan Clarke's Barbarossa.
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