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Yes and no. The Americans wanted to help Nationalist China against the Japanese aggression, but they still wanted to remain neutral rather than being dragged into what would eventually become WW2. So they created a group known as the "Flying Tigers" which were volunteer US Air Force pilots, and made them independent of the US government by claiming they were mercenaries.

Technically they could be considered mercenaries by some definitions, but in practice they were basically a military unit. They were all drafted straight from the military, had limited military equipment, military training.

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