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Title: And you thought the P-40 was a U.S. warplane.
Post by: VWE on February 08, 2005, 01:11:09 PM

(http://www.j-aircraft.com/captured/capturedby/p40warhawk/p-40e_tachikawa.jpg)

Title: And you thought the P-40 was a U.S. warplane.
Post by: BUG_EAF322 on February 08, 2005, 03:32:18 PM

hmm captured p40's ?

Title: And you thought the P-40 was a U.S. warplane.
Post by: Guppy35 on February 08, 2005, 04:19:02 PM

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Originally posted by BUG_EAF322
hmm captured p40's ?

Track down the book "Doomed at the start" about the air war in the Phillipines at the beginning of America's entry into WW2 just after Pearl Harbor.  Captured American pilots actually flew a couple of those P40s back to Japanese airfields for the Japanese.

Dan/Slack

Title: And you thought the P-40 was a U.S. warplane.
Post by: nirvana on February 08, 2005, 04:46:31 PM

Looks like a B17 in the background all of those were captured?  Perhaps it was a ploy to get the Japanese not to shoot at them for a little while?

Title: And you thought the P-40 was a U.S. warplane.
Post by: VWE on February 08, 2005, 04:49:11 PM

Nope, the Japanese actually captured 3 B-17's in the Phillipines.

Title: And you thought the P-40 was a U.S. warplane.
Post by: nirvana on February 08, 2005, 04:52:09 PM

Alrighty

Title: And you thought the P-40 was a U.S. warplane.
Post by: VWE on February 08, 2005, 04:54:21 PM

(http://www.j-aircraft.com/captured/capturedby/p40warhawk/p-40e_50fr_art.jpg)

(http://www.j-aircraft.com/captured/capturedby/b-17/b-17_fuji.jpg)

Title: And you thought the P-40 was a U.S. warplane.
Post by: bunch on February 08, 2005, 11:39:15 PM

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Title: And you thought the P-40 was a U.S. warplane.
Post by: Pongo on February 09, 2005, 01:28:27 AM

If the japanese testing of the P40 had inflated the performance of it as much as the US tesing of the KI 84 inflated the capabilites of that plane..even the japanese would have quit in 42.