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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: WWII Chinese airmen flying for the AAF in China ?
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington IN.
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 90 02:31:45 GMT
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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
*>I met a Chinese flyer whose name is Jack Lee. He was the owner of
*>the Golden Dragon Restaurant in San Francisco in China Town. He
*>told me that they flew Hawk biplane and P-40 was just something
*>they dreamed of.

The book about Saburo Sakai (Japanese Navy ace) mentions
that they faced (and made short work of) Russian built
airplanes called the N.15 and N.16. What were these?

[mod.note:  I think these must have been Polikarpov I-15's and I-16's.
The latter was a stubby little monoplane reminiscent of the Gee Bee racer,
and knicknamed "Rat" by its pilots; the former was the same thing as a
biplane. - Bill ]

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