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Jack Cook
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Will ya look at that guy smiling!!
I bet he's got a full Woodrow Wilson going on there!!
(BTW that's a secret code )
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I think I'm getting a full Woodrow Wilson right now!! :shock:

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No doubt about a Woodrow Wilson there. He, obviously, hasn't got enough skin left over to close his mouth. :oops:
Be that as it may, that "smile" may be closer to clenched teeth with those 6 .50 cals. lit up. :roll:

Mudge the observant :shock:

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Very nice!

Reminds me of the scene in the movie "1941" when silly General Stillwell tells P-40 pilot John Belushi "Let me hear your guns!". John obliged him. :P
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Reminds me of the scene in the movie "1941" when silly General Stillwell tells P-40 pilot John Belushi "Let me hear your guns!". John obliged him.

Actually that was Col Maddox played by Warren Oakes. Stillwell was one of the few same characters in the film (except for a grown man watching Dumbo and singing along!!)

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Outstanding shot...

I've been looking for a print of this photo, but no luck as yet. Any chance of obtaining a larger scan of this Jack? Also, may I use this on the P-40 site? I was going to use a scanned image from an old Fly Leaf, but it would look like garbage compared to a scan of an original.


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That's one cool pic there. I love P-40's! :D
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What model P-40 is that? Looks like it has Merlin exhaust stubs to me...

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The exhaust certainly doesn't look like what we're used to seeing on the P-40, but the scoop on top says Allison. Early E maybe? I don't recall when they went to the flatter exhaust stubs.

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This is a Kittyhawk IA, originally destined for the RAF but diverted to the USAAC and redesignated as a P-40E-1.

The round exhausts were standard for early P-40Es but were often times replaced with fishtails.


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