No. The Flying Tigers first saw combat on December 20, 1941, approximately three weeks after Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese.
China
Sept 29th in moody air base,ga took flying tigers into then 23rd wing
no trade
after. December 7th 1941
Before Germany invaded Poland in 1939, before Japan bombed Pearl harbor in 1941, Japan was fighting in China.
The Flying Tigers , though piloted by Americans , were part of the Chinese air-force which was at war with the Japanese . The 1st American Volunteer Group was a means by which the America government (not yet at war with Japan )could support the Chinese in their war with Japan without being directly associated with the AVG - plausible deniability .
Trade with Japan had stopped before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Moving by stealth into attacking positions.
The attack of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
after
About a year before the attack on Pearl, Radio Listening Posts were established in the states of Rhode Island, Washington, and Florida. Results were flabbergastingly good.The American Volunteer Group was authorized in April of 1941 by FDR to give aid to the Nationalist government of China in their conflict with Japan by creating the group that went on to become the Flying Tigers.
No, the U.S. bombed japan more or less as a result of Pearl Harbor. Relations between the U.S. and Japan were already sour due to the depression and Pearl Harbor pushed the U.S. that little extra bit to bomb Japan.