201st Squadron: The Aztec Eagles: The History of the Mexican Pilots Who Fought in World War II by Gustavo Vazquez-Lozano ISBN B07QXTMFBD instant download

201st Squadron: The Aztec Eagles: The History of the Mexican Pilots Who Fought in World War II by Gustavo Vazquez-Lozano ISBN B07QXTMFBD instant download

In April of 1945, just before the end of the Second World War, Mexico sent an air contingent to fight shoulder-to-shoulder with the Allied Forces: the 201st Fighter Squadron. The six-year war that had wrought so much havoc would be over in just three months: the group of Mexican pilots flew through the last, rapidly-closing gap in order to finish on the side of the victors. The thirty pilots who made up the air squadron did not fight Nazi Germany or Italian fascism, but Japanese imperialism in Luzon and Formosa. The mission dripped with symbolism: during colonial times, the Philippines had been administrated from New Spain (modern-day Mexico), and there were multiple cultural and social links between the two peoples. The best of the Mexican Air Force arrived in the Far East to form part of the end of the biggest naval battle in history, under the command of the legendary General Douglas MacArthur. The great adventure of the 201st Squadron was a hastily-added footnote; a small Mexican coda on a worldwide conflagration that was alreadycoming to an end.