Product Name: Curtiss P-40 : Long-Nosed Tomahawks
Product Category: Books in Media
Manufacturer: Carl Molesworth
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The initial version of the Curtiss P-40, designated by the manufacturer as the Hawk H-81, combined the established airframe of the earlier radial-powered H-75 (P-36) fighter with the Allison V-1710 liquid-cooled engine.The year was 1939, and the marriage was one of expediency.With the threat of war in Europe growing by the day, the US Army Air Corps brass wanted a modern fighter that would combine the sterling handling qualities of the P-36 with a boost in performance that would make it competitive with the new types emerging in Germany and England, and the generals wanted the new plane immediately.The P-40 delivered admirably, and though it never reached the performance levels of the Bf 109 or Spitfire, the sturdy fighter nevertheless made a place in history for itself as the Army's frontline fighter when the US entered World War II.Long-nosed P-40s initially saw combat in North Africa, flying in Royal Air Force squadrons.They also fought in the skies over Pearl Harbor and the Philippines.But the long-nosed P-40 is best known as the shark-faced fighter flown by the American Volunteer Group - the legendary "Flying Tigers" - over Burma and China during 1941-42.
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