P-40 WARHAWK. SC WARBIRD HISTORY PUBLICATION

P-40 WARHAWK TELLS THE STORY OF THIS REMARKABLE AIRCRAFT, INCLUDING ITS COMPLETE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT, USE AROUND THE WORLD, CAREER WITH THE FLYING TIGERS AND TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, SERVICE IN NORTH AFRICA, AND ALEUTIAN ISLAND OPERATIONS. WITHOVER 120 PHOTOGRAPHS (INCLUDING MANY IN RARE WW2 COLOUR) AND APPENDICES HIGHLIGHTING P-40 SERIAL NUMBERS, PERFORMANCE COMPARISON DATA, AND P-40 ACES.

THE P-40 WARHAWK WAS A SHARKTOOTH EMBALAZONED SNARLING WARBIRD POSSESSING REMARKABLE STRENGTH. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CONJURE THE VISAGE OF A P-40 WITHOUT THINKING OF HEROISM. FROM AERIAL COMBAT TO A SECOND CAREER AS A GROUND ATTACK AIRCRAFT. P-40'S SERVED THROUGHOUT WW2. ELDERLY EVEN AS THE WAR BEGAN, THE P-40 FOUGHT THE JAPANESE WITH THE FAMOUS FLYING TIGERS IN CHINA AND WITH THE ARMY AIRFORCES IN THE ALEUTIAN ISLAND CHAIN. ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD, THE INVASION OF NORTH AFRICA INCLUDED SEEMINGLY INCONGRUOUS LAUNCHES OF P-40'S FROM NAVAL AIRCRAFT CARRIERS. LATER, THE FIRST BLACK AVIATORS TO WEAR ARMY AIRFOCE UNIFORMS WOULD LEARN TO FLY FIGHTERS BY CLIMBING INTO THE COCKPITS OF CURTISS P-40 WARHAWKS..