And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, February 19, 2021
Curtiss P-40s being assembled at the Bell Aviation plant in Buffalo, NY.
Dependable workhorse of a fighter. If I'm not mistaken, one 'Hawk version or the other served every allied nation in every theatre. The Flying Tiger version was also my first plastic model airplane kit.
Certainly pre-Pearl - we had already switched production to the P-40E version by mid to late 1941 (IIRC the last of the P-40B and -C models had been built by May or so of '41)
Dependable workhorse of a fighter. If I'm not mistaken, one 'Hawk version or the other served every allied nation in every theatre. The Flying Tiger version was also my first plastic model airplane kit.
ReplyDeleteIn the UK it was Kittyhawk.
ReplyDeleteProbably pre-Pearl Harbor. By 1942 a lot of those workers would be female.
ReplyDeleteYes, pre-WWII. After Pearl Harbor the red circle was eliminated from the insignia to avoid confusion with the Japanese "meatball".
DeleteThe red circle wasn't eliminated until mid to late May of '42; we were still sporting the "meatball" at the Battle of Coral Sea from 4-8 May.
DeleteCertainly pre-Pearl - we had already switched production to the P-40E version by mid to late 1941 (IIRC the last of the P-40B and -C models had been built by May or so of '41)
DeleteI think those are P-40B's
ReplyDeleteOr -C's
DeleteMight be a reversed picture. An inspection hatch and 2-prop on hangered a.c. are reversed!
ReplyDeleteIt is reversed, read the lettering on the table in left foreground.
DeleteSunny day in Buffalo, NY! Wonder how much outdoor work was done when it was 5 degrees in blowing snow?
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