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Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7557

Finally got around to cleaning these photos up for the guys who requested more P-40's. They look much better than they did. the wonders of photoshop. On some of these you can actually count the rivets now ... :wink:

Sources SDASM archives, Library of Congress archives.

Part 1

P-40D

Curtiss Tomahawk MkIA

Curtiss P-40 MkII RAF

P-40N

Curtiss Tomahawk MkIA

Curtiss P-40C 33rd PS Kaldadarnes Iceland

Curtiss Tomahawk MkIA

Curtiss P-40N

Curtiss P-40E

72nd Tactical Recon Group Curtiss P-40 Warhawk

343rd Fighter Group Curtiss P-40 Warhawk

Curtiss P-40K

P-40F Bradley Field CT 1943

Curtiss Kittyhawk MkIA

72nd Tactical Recon Group Curtiss P-40 Warhawk

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7557

Part 2

Royal Australian Air Force Curtiss P-40s

A P-40N-5-CU Warhawk s/n42-105110 on the flightline at the 45th Fighter Squadron 15th Fighter Group area on Nanumea Island Ellice Islands on December 10 1943

Aleutian Tigers from the 11th Fighter Squadron

Luke Fields auxiliary fields during filming of movie 'God is My Co-Pilot'

Three Kittyhawk Is from 111 Squadron RCAF on patrol in Alaskan skies during 1942

P-40K was originally destined for the USSR under Lend-Lease

18th Fighter Squadron P-40E

P-40N43-24012-Accident at Patterson Field

P-40E-1 Warhawk s/n41-25116 pilot was 2nd Lt James C Reed pictured near Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City North Carolina on April 12 1942

Crash at Piva airstrip 1943

344th Fighter Squadron P-40K

Randy Wilson · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2013 3:38 pm

The image of the AVG #45 in the first set almost looks like the pilot is a girl with pig tails until you blow it up. Odd.

Randy

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7557

Part 3

Repairing a Flying Tiger P-40 at Kunming China (US Air Force photo)

P-40 of the 55th Pursuit Squadron 20th Pursuit Group at Oakland Airport 1940

P-40L-5-CU42-10554

P-40N43-23388

P-40C's of the 43rd Pursuit Squadron 16th Pursuit Group on patrol over Trinidad

JohnCFord · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2013 4:15 pm

Thank you very much. Got some good ones there... :supz:

~J~

cooper9411 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2013 4:36 pm

O.K. Mark, I got my weekly P-40 fix! Thank you! :drink3:

Deuelly · **Joined:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 3:30 pm **Posts:** 97

Great photo's Mark. Thank you for all the time you spend to share them.

hang the expense · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2013 7:06 pm

Hey Mark, Some really good shots of the Hawks.Feel free to post more of these anytime.I had not seen alot of those before.Thank you for posting. :supz:

cooper9411 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2013 8:18 pm

hang the expense wrote:

Hey Mark, Some really good shots of the Hawks.Feel free to post more of these anytime.

+1

Enjoy all the models, but especially the P-40 E-1 :drink3:

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7557

Much Welcome!!!! :wink:

... This is becoming a new hobby to clean and clear these old photos. Amazing how bad some of them looked before I started messing around with photoshop. Night and day difference for many of them, hope you guys like the outcome. A few of these I posted before in the first 'P-40' thread a while back. Much better looking now.

Civilian P-40's

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2013 11:55 pm

You can add the E model in the tenth picture to the civilian side - it's one of the two Tora! Tora! Tora! flyers (looks like N1207V?).

Be interesting to find out what happened to that last crashed one - result of a midair collision or maybe caught a tow target?

The Inspector · **Posted:** Tue Jan 15, 2013 12:26 am

Posting a P-40 picture is like posting a photo of a cute, fuzzy kitten sleeping in a weird or funny pose, every one just goes 'ahhhh-yes' and feels better for having seen it.

hang the expense · **Posted:** Tue Jan 15, 2013 12:52 am

Anyone notice the B model mustang wing on gear in the back ground of the first civvy n model?

Badman · **Joined:** Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:05 pm **Posts:** 69

The P-40F in Part 1 called "Dutchess of Durham" belonged to the 325th FG's Capt. Taylor who would become their first ace in North Africa. The "Dutchess" was his fiance who he later married and had her likeness painted on the cowling on a later P-40 he flew ("the Dutchess of Durham IV"). He was originally assigned aircraft #11 in N. Africa while his squadron mate H. Green had #13. According to Capt Taylor, Green got shot up pretty bad on one of the 325th's early missions and thought the #13 was unlucky and traded planes with Taylor.

John Kerr · **Posted:** Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:12 am

FYI: Ref civil P-40's
photo 2 is P-40E, AK-987 (EX RCAF 1068) N5673N. Photo taked at the USAF Museum.
photo 3 is TP-40N, 44-7084,N999CD

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