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02-28-2005, 09:23 PM
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Hey, were Allies recruited other ethnicities? Chinese, Blacks, Arabs, Jews....?
I know there were some African-American pilots, how about RAF in Britain? do they also enlist minorties too? | 
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02-28-2005, 10:17 PM
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| I know they had some Indians and Mexicans fighting too.
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02-28-2005, 10:19 PM
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#3 | | He who does not skim
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Country:  | Brazil had some flyers too. Douglas Jr. posted some great pics and an interesting little history about them, some time ago. | |
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03-01-2005, 03:45 AM
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Country:  | There were definitely pilots from the Caribbean in Bomber Command
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03-01-2005, 09:34 AM
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Country:  | I think there was a website out there somewhere that listed foreign crews of the RAF. I will have to see if I can find that. I do know that there were crews from India. Mexico had a group of pilots that flew with the USAAF, as did Brazil. I don't havve a complete list.
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03-01-2005, 11:40 AM
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Country:  | I heard once that there was a Russian Female ace who was a Jew, this kinda annoyed the Germans 
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03-01-2005, 12:12 PM
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Country: | we tended to get most of our pilots from Britian and her commonwealth..............
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03-01-2005, 02:15 PM
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Country: | Well obviously, who else we gonna recruit? Nazis? Japs?
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03-01-2005, 03:20 PM
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