Curtiss P-40, Part 1 | The Most Underrated Fighter of WW2?

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  @RexsHangar · 4 years ago · pinned

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  @deplorable_bitter_clinger7482 · 4 years ago (edited)

  &quot;New pilots coming to our fighter group were invariably cocky to the point they were dangerous to themselves. They thought the Luftwaffe was finished and that the P-51 could quickly and easily kill anything else that flew. To modify the attitude of the newcomers, we used a war weary P-40 which our squadron somehow acquired. I was in charge of putting new pilots through a quick, intensive training program, and the final flight included a mock dogfight with the new pilot of a P-51 pitted against one of us flying a P-40. I can tell you that until a pilot knows the strengths and weaknesses of both airplanes, the P-40 can make the P-51 look outclassed. Using all of the P-40s strengths, an innovative pilot could out fly a P-51 at low altitudes until the P-51 jockey finally realized that there was something more to fighting in the air than *simply having the best airplane*. At that point the new pilot would become ready to listen to everything we had to say.&quot;<br><br>Barrie Davis, P-51 pilot, 325th Fighter Group

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  @legoeasycompany · 4 years ago

  It seems so strange that the Kittyhawk is so forgotten when she did so much sterling service from North Africa to China, From the Philippines to getting some of the first USAAF victories over Pearl Harbor. Guess it&apos;s just like the Hurricane with forgotten early war planes?

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  @hunterfalkenberg2837 · 3 years ago

  My grandfather trained on a p-40 with the british in Africa, I used to keep the photograph we have of him flying on above my bed as a kid. There was an inscription on the back that said &quot;Flying my Kittyhawk, Rhodesia, 1944&quot;

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  @dwong92464 · 4 years ago

  As a Chinese American son of a World War II veteran, the P40 holds a special place in my heart. I even had an all-metal toy model as a boy. Thanks for making this, and I hope you recover fully from your covid.

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  @m.streicher8286 · 4 years ago

  There seems to be a wave of retrospective appreciation for the P-40, and I&apos;m happy to see it.

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  @535tony · 4 years ago

  The best thing about the P40 was that it was there when we needed it. The Australians made great use of the P40 as well as the British.

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  @prizecowproductions · 4 years ago

  My uncle reg was a ground mechanic or engineer with 3 squadron in North Africa. I believe &nbsp;pilots from other base&apos;s got to hear of his tuning abilities and would make excuses to land at the airfield he was working on.<br>My grandmother kept on asking what he needed while there. He replied more often than not, Hankerchiefs which he would use whilst working on fuel supply equipment. CARBYS FILTERS ECT<br>To the time he died he never much liked the beach as he reckoned he had seen enough sand to last several lifetime&apos;s.<br>Footnote towards the end of WWII he actually was on Lancaster&apos;s as a flight engineer. Always had 2 scotches after 3 and said to me the secret to living a long life was sex and chocolate cake. He died at 93. Aussie Jeff Moore

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  @garyfasso6223 · 4 years ago

  Thank you for not referring to the Japanese fighters in China as Zeroes.<br>You deserve an Oscar.<br>Sorry.

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  @GTX1123 · 3 years ago

  In 1969 my Dad took us over to Pearl Harbor on a Sunday to see the aircraft being used to film the epic movie &quot;Tora, Tora, Tora&quot; (he was stationed at Pearl at the time). The Navy had dragged a P40 out of a hangar that had been damaged but not destroyed 28 yrs earlier during the attack. One of the landing gear was bent where the pilot hit debris while trying to taxi during the attack and their were bullet holes up and down one wing and the fuselage. The radio equipment and instruments had long since been ripped out and there were wires hanging out of the cockpit. Me and my brother climbed up on the wing and due to the fact that he was older than me, he jumped into the cockpit. The flight yoke / stick was still in it as was the gun site. After 5 minutes I began to have a meltdown because it was my turn and my brother wasn&apos;t complying LOL. My Dad realizing that we might get in trouble for messing with what was a movie prop ordered us off this majestic piece of history. I was SEETHING with anger at my brother for robbing me of my opportunity to seat in the cockpit of a piece of history because even at 7 yrs of age I understood its significance. But that&apos;s OK. I got back at him four yrs later when I got to steer a DDG Charles F. Adams-class guided missile armed destroyer and HE DIDN&apos;T during a Tiger cruise LOL (just so happened that the Captain was a friend of my Dad&apos;s family so he let the Sr. CPO&apos;s kid sit in his chair and steer the ship).

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  @CaycousSmith · 2 years ago

  Never forget Captain “Wild” Bill Kelso at the battle of Los Angeles.

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  @justanotherjezebeI · 4 years ago

  The P-40F Warhawk is my second favorite plane EVER and IMO has been severely overshadowed during its tenure by both the Mustang and the Spitfire (the C-130 Hercules in all is various iterations will forever and always be #1, and anyone who says otherwise can fight me.) and my husband is laughing at me for literally squeeing with excitement over this video. Super looking forward to part 2!

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