Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "Baltic Naval War 1919 - Fire & Ice (but mostly ice, lots of ice)" video.

Actually not the first nor last time. An American pilot shot down a Japanese pilot during WW2 while he, the American pilot, was floating down to earth in his parachute. This was the same Japanese pilot who had had shot him down and was intent on finishing the job. The Japanese pilot flew up next to the US pilot and was hanging in midair so he could take a look at the man he was about to kill. The US pilot pulled out his pistol and fired at the Japanese pilot and killed him. When taken prisoner the US pilot was given the opportunity to take his own life by his captors because they had a good idea what would happen to the pilot but turned it down. As it turned out he did survive being a POW and went back to the US. So I see your balloon and raise you a parachute.
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I think it was a cunning plan to confuse the Russian.
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Of course it would have been a simple job. Couple of days tops. Is it just me or do you get the feeling that the person behind the plan had no idea what was involved.
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@RCAvhstape Thanks for that. Air America worked with the CIA but was not part of the CIA. Lots of people assume that they were part of the CIA, myself included, but the were civilian contractors. Interestingly their aircraft belonged to the USAF.
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My thoughts exactly.
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I knew there was clashes between Red and White Russians after the war and the Royal Navy was involved but I did not know the details. I know British and American troops were sent there. I also knew that there was a problem with some British troops not wanting to fight in Russia. Partly because they had had enough and wanted to go home and partly because they did not want to die fighting to help businesses who were owed money get it back. A small number of British troops did destert
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