"American Military Advisors in the Chaco War?" Topic
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| Mooseworks8 | 12 Mar 2014 2:35 p.m. PST |
Did we send any down there for either side? Also did we send anyone down for the Columbia-Peru War? My google-fu reveals nought. Thanks. |
 ColCampbell  | 12 Mar 2014 3:38 p.m. PST |
Since these wars were in the early 1930s during the Great Depression, I doubt very seriously that any official US military advisors were dispatched. If there were military attaches in any of the American embassies, they may have visited or reported on the fighting but probably would not have advised any of the participants. The only military operations of which I am aware were the US Marines in Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. Jim |
| Black Bull | 12 Mar 2014 3:44 p.m. PST |
Maybe some WW 1 vets acting as mercenaries ? |
| bogdanwaz | 12 Mar 2014 4:40 p.m. PST |
I remember there was an attempt by a private company, Curtiss Jenny I think, to sell bombers to Bolivia, but it was stopped due to US neutrality laws. |
| Mooseworks8 | 12 Mar 2014 5:44 p.m. PST |
I was curious since Standard Oil operated in Bolivia. |
| Fatman | 14 Mar 2014 8:25 a.m. PST |
bogdanwaz
Curtiss aircraft actually were a major component of Bolivias Air Force. The Curtiss HawkII/Sea HawkII fighter bombers were probably the best all round aircraft of the conflict and the twenty or so Curtiss Osprey general purpose types were the mainstay of their bomber/recce forces. Fatman |
| Fatman | 14 Mar 2014 8:28 a.m. PST |
Brigadier General SoloWargame
In the thirty years or so I have been reading about this "Little War" I have never come across any mention of of American advisers Official, Corporate or Mercenary. Of course that doesn't mean it didn't happen, its not the most covered of conflicts in English and my Spanish is limited to ordering a beer. Fatman |
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