Flying Tigers VS Christopher Shores?

[Ruy Horta]

Originally Posted by Juha

"I can't believe that the AVG and later generation pilots flying for "Air America" and similar were doing so mainly out of love for country (unless you can show original letters that pilot "X" wasn't in it for the money and adventure)."

Ruy, with all respects
I’d not to bother to guess motives of men that I don’t know personally. Humans are so different and they motives so complicated. It’s easy to be sceptical to motives of others whose values are different from one’s own but they can follow their values even better than we follow our own.

Juha

I invite you to carefully read again what I wrote, and unless you can proof otherwise by supporting evidence (letters, other writing and/or even interviews) I still find it hard to believe that the prime motivator (as in "mainly") was love of country.

The broad term of national interest abroad doesn't easily translate to a personal sense of love of country.