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  • Tomahawk Is of No.403 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, at Baginton in April 1941.

    Самолёты на фотографии: Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk - США - 1939

  • Регистрационный номер: AH973

    A Tomahawk IIA, believed to be AH973, at the Curtiss plant at Buffalo, NY

    Самолёты на фотографии: Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk - США - 1939

  • 1. Tomahawk I AH762 of No.239 Squadron (uncoded) 2. Tomahawk I AH755 in colours of No.168 Squadron (aircraft was not allotted to this unit) 3. Tomahawk I AH793 of No.239 Squadron 4. Tomahawk IIA of No.26 Squadron 5. Tomahawk IIA with code of No.26 OTU: presumably transferred from attached Bomber Gunnery Training Flight without formal allocation.
    Item 4 carries the springbok's head emblem of No.26 Squadron on the white strip of the fin marking, one of the few units carrying such revealing markings, the allocation of code letters being intended to conceal unit identities. The failure to change squadron code letters frequently defeated the object of the exercise but fortunately simplified the identification of photographs for future historians'.

    Самолёты на фотографии: Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk - США - 1939

  • Самолёты на фотографии: Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk - США - 1939

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