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.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Men rest in the shade of a 22nd Pursuit Squadron P-36 at Langley Field, probably 1940
smokin' unfiltered pall malls and lucky strikes
ReplyDeleteTake off the Pratt & Whitney radial engine, put on the Allison V1710, and you have the XP-37/40 prototypes, which were refined into the P-40 Warhawk.
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ReplyDelete24 cyl "H" engine used in the Hawker Typhoon and Tempest
Gotta pitty the poor fools that went into the Pacific at Pearl Harbor and Midway with P36's! We were NOT ready for the war.
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