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P-40 Warhawk Studies |
| The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk (specifications), is best remembered as the fighter aircraft used by General Claire Chennault’s American Volunteer Group, the famous “Flying Tigers”. The AVG was credited with 297 victories while flying the P-40. The Curtiss Company was capable of manufacturing sixty new P-40s a day, which the US Government needed at the beginning of the war. Curtiss built almost 14,000 P-40s, making it the third highest US fighter manufactured in World War II. Only the P-47 Thunderbolt and the P-51 Mustang were built in greater quantity. |
| Click on paintings for detailed views. | ||
| Study 1 | Study 2 | |
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| 'Flying Tiger #3' - Dick Rossi | 'Flying Tiger #5' - Dick Rossi | |
| Study 3 | Study 4 | |
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| 'Flying Tiger #18' - Dick Rossi | 'Flying Tiger #80' - Robert 'Catfish' Raine | |
| Study 5 | Study 6 | |
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| 'Flying Tiger #80' - Robert 'Catfish' Raine | 'Flying Tiger #48' - Lee 'Tex' Hill | |
| P-40s are featured in the painting "Warhawks". | ||
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