Warbird Information Exchange

... This one a Captured P-40K xxx119 with everything forward of the firewall being removed.

Caption states: "P-40K from the 76th FS, 51st FG in Kweilin, China 30 July 1945. Repatriated after Chinese forces reoccupy the city.

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It looks like they made an effort to make it look like it has a radial, like most Japanese aircraft.

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I figure if you wanted my opinion on items unrelated to this forum, you'd ask for it.

I wonder if maybe it's not a P-40K? There are two options for -119; one later to Brazil and the other written off with the RAF in North Africa.

I think the S/N has been overpainted, and #119 is the plane ID within the squadron, like other 51st FG planes.



Laurent