Sunday, December 8, 2013

Pearl Harbour veteran P-40B Warhawk for the Collings Foundation.

News broke on Friday that the Collings Foundation, Massachusetts, USA, has acquired The Fighter Collection’s Curtiss P-40B Warhawk, an airworthy veteran of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.  Elliott Marsh reports for GAR.

Curtiss P-40B Warhawk G-CDWH has been a regular participant at IWM Duxford Air Shows since 2008, appearing intermittently at other British and European airshows over the last five years.  The P-40B was manufactured at the Curtiss factory in Buffalo, New York, rolling off the production line in 1941 with build number 41-13297.  

It entered service with the US Army Air Corps in April 1941, operated by the 19th Pursuit Squadron of the 18th Pursuit Group.  The Warhawk was based at Wheeler Field, Hawaii, and was hangared undergoing maintenance when the Japanese launched their surprise attack on Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941, 72 years ago today.



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