eBay: Curtiss P-40

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Snautzer01 said:
Curtiss P-40E-1 41-36504 retained in USA. Collided with another aicraft on takeoff at Hillgrove AAB, RI Dec 27, 1942. 27-12-1942 Sunday

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Must have been repaired as it's wearing mid-1943 markings. It's been fitted with the fillet on the vertical stabilizer as well.
 
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Greg Boeser said:
Must have been repaired as it's wearing mid-1943 markings. It's been fitted with the fillet on the vertical stabilizer as well.
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Greg

The fin fillet was actually fitted to late model E-1's as built, affecting the last 500 aircraft (this is one of those 500). It's what makes telling what model you are looking at extremely difficult when it comes to late model E-1 and K-1/K-5 models when you cannot see the serials (also why it "seems" CBI theatre and Russia got far more K-1/K-5 models than they actually did).

She suffered an engine failure and force landing in Jul 1942, and a further accident 27th Dec 42 (as above), and as such you can see she has "fishtailed" exhausts, vice the original "Pot " type she would have left the factory with - likely indicating an engine change (I'll see if I can confirm later tonight). IIRC this picture was taken when she was flying with a Training Unit out of Eagle Pass Jul/ early Aug 1943.

Buz
 
Buz101 said:
Greg

The fin fillet was actually fitted to late model E-1's as built, affecting the last 500 aircraft (this is one of those 500). It's what makes telling what model you are looking at extremely difficult when it comes to late model E-1 and K-1/K-5 models when you cannot see the serials (also why it "seems" CBI theatre and Russia got far more K-1/K-5 models than they actually did).

She suffered an engine failure and force landing in Jul 1942, and a further accident 27th Dec 42 (as above), and as such you can see she has "fishtailed" exhausts, vice the original "Pot " type she would have left the factory with - likely indicating an engine change (I'll see if I can confirm later tonight). IIRC this picture was taken when she was flying with a Training Unit out of Eagle Pass Jul/ early Aug 1943.

Buz
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Good info, Buz!
 
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Unca Bud IV The pilot of this aircraft was Captain Marshall W. Sneed. He was with the 57th Fighter Group, 65th Fighter Squadron. Capt. Sneed was shot down on February 22, 1943 in the Bay of Gabes, Tunisia, while attacking German forces in their flight to escape from Africa. His body was never recovered and he is memorialized at the North African American Cemetery in Carthage

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from Marshall Sneed | American Air Museum

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