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Curtiss XP-40 in the NACA full-scale wind tunnel, Langley Field, Virginia, April 1939.
Curtiss-Wright's prototype fighter, the XP-40 (Model 75P), was evaluated by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Virginia, in March and April 1939. NACA engineers placed the XP-40 inside the Full-Scale Wind Tunnel, which was capable of accepting airplanes with wing spans of up to 40 feet (12.2 meters). The airplane was a production Curtiss P-36A Hawk, serial number 38-10, which had been modified by replacing its original air-cooled Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp S1C1-G (R-1830-17) 14-cylinder radial engine with a Harold Caminez-designed, liquid-cooled, supercharged, 1,710.597-cubic-inch-displacement (28.032 liter) Allison Engineering Co. V-1710-C13 (V-1710-19).

 

A Northrop N3P-B, 22 'GS-F', of No. 330 (Norwegian) Squadron based at
Akureyri, Iceland, in flight over the North Atlantic Ocean.

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The Pilot must be having a nap
 
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On this day 75 years ago. April 26 1945.
Since the British freed Belsen concentration camp, everything possible has been done to make the children forget any horrors
they may have seen there. Most of these children had Jewish blood and many of their parents died in the camp. British soldiers
have given up their cigarette rations to the adults and their sweets ration to the children of Belsen camp. Toys have also been
requisitioned from nearby towns. Children playing on the swings at the Belsen concentration camp, Germany on April 26,
1945, which are erected by a R.E.M.E. detachment. A British soldier gives a helping hand.

 
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Where are the gun turrets gone ?
Silverplate modification, pioneered by 509th BG. Later often field retrofitted to many units for weight, speed, range and reduced crew advantages, with minimal risk from Japanese fighters.
 

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