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.
saw "God is My Co-pilot" on the afternoon movie @5PM, got the Monogram model the next day, it was my second model- first was a rocket my mother helped me make. seven years old.
P-40F Warhawks? Then they are powered by the Packard Merlin V12, possibly the most capable version of the Curtiss Warhawk, the Kittyhawk II in Commonwealth service.
my favorite WW2 fighter
ReplyDeleteThe first balsa airplane kit (Guillows?) I ever put together, about 1963 (age 8 or 9), was a P40.
ReplyDeletesaw "God is My Co-pilot" on the afternoon movie @5PM, got the Monogram model the next day, it was my second model- first was a rocket my mother helped me make. seven years old.
DeleteInteresting squadron markings.
ReplyDeletelooks like "friend or foe" identifications. guessin'.
DeleteP-40Fs of the 68th FS, 347th FG, Guadalcanal 1943. The one in front is P-40F-15-CU, s/n 41-19825. The one in back is P-40F, s/n 41-1410.
ReplyDeleteDang, did it again. The one in back is 41-14102. Fat fingers!
DeleteP-40F Warhawks? Then they are powered by the Packard Merlin V12, possibly the most capable version of the Curtiss Warhawk, the Kittyhawk II in Commonwealth service.
DeleteStrongly recommend A Flying Tiger's Diary by Charles Bond with Terry Anderson.
ReplyDeleteThose dudes were some BAMFs.