#p-40 kittyhawk

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Generaloberst Erwin Rommel with officers of the Afrika Korps inspects a damaged RAF Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk fighter, North Africa, 1942

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”The Breitling Fighters”

From left to right: Vaught F4U Corsair, North American P-51 Mustang, Supermarine Spitfire, Curtis P-40 Kittyhawk

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A Kittyhawk I of No 75 Squadron RAAF at Milne Bay, September 1942

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The only information for this image on the Canadian Library & Archive page was the simple sentence, "RCAF Curtiss Kittyhawk's in formation flight!" So that's all I know folks!

Photo: Canadian Library & Archives. Ref. SAI539

Image Repair & Colourisation - Nathan Howland @ HowdiColourWorks.

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Oshkosh 2023

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1440x1168 P40 Curtiss Kittyhawks of the RAF in Northern Africa 1941

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Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk Aircraft

The P-40 was the third-most numerous US fighter of World War II. An early prototype version of the P-40 was the first American fighter capable of speeds greater than 300 mph.

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1942 02 21 The Long Shot - Roy Grinnell

Tomahawk Mk.IIa "GA-X"(AK658) 112 Sqn, RAF.

F/L Clive "Killer" Caldwell

repost better size and corrected color. I hesitated for a long time, because it's a sunset scene, but I am convinced the reddish hue was just the camera red glare and this how it should look

about the pilot and some of his fights:

While flying to his base alone, over northwest Egypt on 29 August 1941, Caldwell was attacked by two Bf 109s, in a simultaneous approach at right angles. His attackers included one of Germany's most famous aces, Leutnant Werner Schröer, also of JG 27, in a Bf 109E-7. Caldwell sustained three separate wounds from ammunition fragments and or shrapnel. His Tomahawk was hit by more than 100 7.92 mm bullets and five 20 mm cannon shells, but he shot down Schröer's wingman, and heavily damaged Schröer's "Black 8", causing Schröer to disengage

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about his nickname:

In 4 July 1941, Caldwell saw a German pilot shoot and kill a close friend, Pilot Officer Donald Munro, who was descending to the ground in a parachute. This was a controversial practice, but was nevertheless common among German and Allied pilots. One biographer, Kristin Alexander, suggests that it may have caused Caldwell's attitude to harden significantly. Months later,(...) journalists popularised Caldwell's nickname of "Killer", which he disliked. One reason for the nickname was that he too shot enemy airmen after they parachuted out of aircraft. Caldwell commented many years later: "... there was no blood lust or anything about it like that. It was just a matter of not wanting them back to have another go at us. I never shot any who landed where they could be taken prisoner. (...) A more commonly cited reason for the nickname was his habit of using up ammunition left over at the end of sorties, to shoot up enemy troop convoys and vehicles. During his war service, Caldwell wrote in a notebook: "it's your life or theirs. This is war."

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about the action depicted in the painting:

Caldwell scored another striking victory in February 1942, while leading a formation of 11 Kittyhawks from 112 Sqn and 3 Sqn. Over Gazala, he sighted a schwarm of Bf 109Fs flying some 2,000 ft higher. Caldwell immediately nosed into a shallow dive, applied maximum power and boost, then pulled his Kittyhawk up into a vertical climb. With his P-40 "hanging from its propeller," he fired a burst at a Bf 109 flown by Leutnant Hans-Arnold Stahlschmidt of I./JG 27, who was lagging behind the others. Stahlschmidt's fighter "shuddered like a carpet being whacked with a beater" before spinning out of control. Although the Kittyhawk pilots thought that the Bf 109 had crashed inside Allied lines, Stahlschmidt was able to crash-land in friendly territory.

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Caldwell claimed 22 victories while in North Africa flying P-40s, including ten Bf 109s and two Macchi C.202s.

He had flown some 550 hours in over 300 operational sorties.

Note: In addition to his fight with Schröer, Caldwell also fought and shot down three German aces:

-Wolfgang Lippert, Erbo Graf von Kageneck and Hans-Arnold Stahlschmidt

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Audio Log: Hudson Hendriks (FOUND IN ART DEPARTMENT)

I shouldn't be so wrapped up in this, I'm aware.

In about a month, I'm quitting the studio and packing up my bag for Canada. The Air Force awaits....

I should be proud to have ties to RCAF. I should be ecstatic about following my Dad's footsteps, and his Dad's footsteps....and his Dad's footsteps...wait does that even make sense? Whatever, pretty sure it does.

I was once an Air Cadet. What the hell did I expect? Never go to the Air Force? Yeah, right.

I should be proud. Brave. And......Oh to hell with this!!

Why won't he be proud of me? What do I have to do? Lead a bunch of P-51 mustangs and P-40 Kittyhawks into battle? Like heck I would!

I just......

I just want him to be proud of me.

I joined Boy scouts to impress him. I joined Air Cadets to impress him. I made ties here in New York by myself. I......

Am I......

Good enough?

If I go to war and die like a hero......

Would he finally love me?

Proud to call me his son?

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Dutch East Indies. March 1945. Portrait of Squadron Leader Clive Tolhurst, Commanding Officer of No. 75 Squadron RAAF, standing next to his Curtis P-40 Kittyhawk.

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PACIFIC AIRSHOW GOLD COAST 2023 VOL 2

Incoming photodump! Batch 2!

Will title the different acts accordingly! Pictures below the cut!

Emma McDonald's solo performance (cont.)

A Marchetti S211 solo

Aaron Deliu came out to play in his Extra 330LT. IIRC, he is a national champion for aerobatics in Australia.

USAF put on a show with their own C-17, and also brought out their KC-135 Stratotanker to do a mock refuelling pass

The Screaming Diamonds put on an impressive display in their S-1-11 and two S-1Ts

Some skydivers from Gold Coast Skydiving dropped in to say hello!

Matt Hall returned for his own solo display

Then some old warbirds came out to give us a show. First a Focke Wulf FW190 flew...

... but got chased off by a P-40 Kittyhawk and P-51 Mustang

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N2416X - 1941 P-40E Kittyhawk - Texas Warhawk LLC

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P-40 Wing bomb racks

Special Hobby has released a new CMK underwing bombs set and racks that are compatible with 1:72 P-40 models. P-40 Wing bomb racks with plywood support boards A pair of bomb racks for the P-40 Warhawk/Kittyhawk bomber. Set is designed for the new SH72502 kit but can be used with any of our earlier P40 Warhawk / Kittyhawk releases. The set is designed for the new SH72502 kit but can be used with…

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P-40

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Something I started years ago that I've not got around to finishing. This is 40 x 30 inch acrylic on canvas, and I think some of my best cloud work to date. I'll be putting some work into this soon.

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Army officers watch from their jeep as Curtiss Kittyhawk Mark IIIs of No. 112 Squadron RAF take off on a sortie at Foggia, Italy.

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