In a previous article, "Dan Luke" said:
"Paul Tomblin" wrote:
Anyone else hear our own Dan Ford talking about the Flying Tigers on XM
Public Radio's Bob Edwards Show this morning? Very nice, long interview
with
Dan about the AVG.

So, did Erik Schilling phone in to tell him all the mistakes he made in
his books?

It wasn't a call-in show.

Perhaps you could list them for us.

Erik and Dan had some epic flame wars on rec.aviation.military after his
first book on the Flying Tigers. He says that in this book, he actually
corrected some of the mistakes Erik pointed out.

Most of the flames were about:
a) Dan and Erik disagreed about what type of P-40 Erik flew, specifically
about whether the self-sealing material was on the outside or inside the
gas tanks. I believe Dan has agreed that Erik was correct on that issue
now.

b) Dan claimed that Flying Tigers pilots bought kills off of British
pilots so that they could collect the AVG kill bonus. And overclaimed
like crazy. He justified that by citing a lack of Japanese records, in
spite of the fact that the Japanese burned their records by the truckload
as they retreated. He also made a big deal about the lack of wreckage, in
spite of the fact that much of the combat was over a mostly trackless
jungle where wrecks are still turning up now. I'm not sure if Dan has
modified his claims in his new book.


--
Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/
Either way, it'll remind the clued that there's only one letter
difference between 'turkey' and 'turnkey'.
-- Mike Andrews