If the North American P-51 Mustang was the LeBron James of World War II American fighters, you can think of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk as almost like Carmello Anthony. Undoubtedly a lethal and capable ...

Outmatched at high altitude but tough, fast in a dive, and always available, the Curtiss P-40 carried the early air war when few better options existed. From Pearl Harbor and North Africa to China and ...

Veteran Curtiss P-40N Warhawk 42-105120 "Bonnie Kaye," flown in the Aleutians Campaign and meticulously restored, is now ...

In all, the P-40 proved itself a worthy and rugged fighter. The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk was the third most widely produced American fighter of World War II, after the North American P-51 Mustang and the ...

Some time ago, we took a trip to the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum in Central New York, where museum staff had managed to piece together the remains of two Curtiss P-40 Warhawks that'd collided mid-air ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Whether known as the Warhawk, Tomahawk, or Kittyhawk, the Curtiss P-40 proved to be a successful, versatile fighter ...

The Truman war-watchdog committee exploded in a new report, this time on a half-dozen phases of U.S. aircraft production, with a special shelling reserved for Curtiss-Wright Corp., second largest U.S.

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