* * * * * The Second World War - which formerly had seemed so very far away - with very little warning landed in my folks’ end of the world during the last month of 1941. 7th December 1941, Japs attack Pearl Harbor, Honolulu. Four days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the airfields at Tavoy, south of Rangoon, were bombed and strafed by the Japanese. The next day small scouting units, of the Japanese Army, infiltrated the southern Burmese border and skirmished with British and Burmese troops. Flying Tigers at Rangoon examine Jap rudder they shot down. RAF squadron at Rangoon with their obsolete Buffalo Fighter. Also on that day a squadron of P-40s, from the American Volunteer Group known as the “Flying Tigers,” came down from China ...