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PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 5:42 pm 
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Here's my newest art print, to go along with my similar Tshirt that I posted the other day. It's called "ONE DOWN, TWO TO GO". I know most of you will appreciate seeing a P-40 that's not AVG! :lol:

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 5:53 pm 
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 8:21 pm 
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Hey! That P-40 looks like the one on my shirt but diving in the other direction.

Yep, i've got on my Warbird Alley tee today. Now i'll have to get this one when it's available.

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Glad to see some recognition for the Aleutians. Now...if there was just a PV flying out there in the background :wink:


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:02 am 
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Thanks guys! Yes, it does have some similarities to the WA shirt but it's all new. What can I say, I love P-40s in a dive. :lol:

I posted the link on page 2 of the Warbird Clothing Thread for the Tshirt the other day via Redbubble.

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OK...it's educate Mudge time...again.

Where did the shark mouth and tiger mouth on the P-40 originate and why? Could it be that the P-40 intake hole is so like the open mouth of the shark or tiger or is it more steeped in mystery and myth than that? :wink:

Mudge the educable :roll:

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That's not accurate at all!
The real ones never looked that good :shock: :wink:

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Actually originated on RAF P-40s in the N. African Theater of Ops.

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Pogmusic wrote:
Actually originated on RAF P-40s in the N. African Theater of Ops.


112Sqd. RAF copied it from II/ZG 76 (Zertorergruppe - Bf110's) in the Med, but it goes back further than that to 1916 (at least) where the 'Whalemouth" was a common motif on Roland C.II's

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Jack Cook wrote:
That's not accurate at all!
The real ones never looked that good :shock: :wink:



Busted. Hahaha! :lol:

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I just finished reading The Forgotten War about the Aleutian campaign. It's a pretty good overview, but I was hoping for a more day to day type chronology of the air operations. But I still learned quite a bit. Like the bombing missions into Japan later in the war... I had no idea.

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There is some Aleutians stuff in 'Log of the Liberators' describing in some details, missions in the chain. A typical breifing, 'todays target is 13' everyone nodded and went to the airplanes-they knew where and what 13 was.

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