Originally posted by Guppy35
All kinds of shark mouthed P40s out there. It actually started with 112 squadron in the desert with thier P40s. Before the LW guys jump in, they were also on 110s and 109Bs I believe.
Any of the 23rd FG P40s would have had them in US markings.. 51st FG in the CBI also had shark mouths.
Actually one of the flying tigers said (I won't directly quote, I can't remember every word, but these are his basic words) "I saw a magazine showing a bf110 on the cover, with a wicked red shark's mouth on it, and thought that's the kind of thing we need! So we went around and hand-chalked the mouths onto the planes, and then had them painted in. Each one was done by hand, so each one was unique"
The LW was using it before the AVG did.
EDIT: Also the pre-war 109s had 'em, as shown