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Just looked all the way thru the P-40 thread and when I saw post 50, I immediately thought "group build".
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Nice shots!
Navalwarrior
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Merlin engined P-40F or L variant.
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The 99th won their Spurs in North Africa long before the Red Tails. In fact the 99th were 'mad as hell' that they were forced into an all black unit.
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Good shots!
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Notice the Allison engined P-51As in the L background.
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MIflyer
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A really big airplane kit!
MIflyer
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A mock up of a twin engined P-40. I think the wings would have been a bit short. Maybe Curtiss saw the Grumman XF5F?
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My guess is this P-40B/C is pre-Pearl Harbor timeframe. Beauful photo shot!
MIflyer
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Yes, it would have to be pre-PH because they started building the D model in the fall of 1941. And since I believe that Curtiss was located at an airfield in Buffalo and thus the P-40 could have been flown to any spot in the US, it is going overseas. And I guess that means HI or the PI.
Interestingly enough, in the PI by the time the war started most of the P-40's there were P-40E's; with only one squadron of the B/C models. In HI they had nothing but P-40B/C on 7 Dec 1941, with some P-36 and some P-26; after they lost most of their P-40 and P-36 they flew a lot of patrols with the remaining P-26's. The IJN was still flying Claudes at the time of the Solomans campaign, so a P-26 vs. Claude combat is at least theoretically possible, if under very unusual circumstances.
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Interestingly enough, in the PI by the time the war started most of the P-40's there were P-40E's; with only one squadron of the B/C models. In HI they had nothing but P-40B/C on 7 Dec 1941, with some P-36 and some P-26; after they lost most of their P-40 and P-36 they flew a lot of patrols with the remaining P-26's. The IJN was still flying Claudes at the time of the Solomans campaign, so a P-26 vs. Claude combat is at least theoretically possible, if under very unusual circumstances.
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