P-40

B-24s bombing Sinshih, an important Japanese supply in the Hunan campaign of the time. 8.6.1944. With P-51 and P-40 fighter escorts. Consolidated B-24J-35-CO Liberator "Krachy Kourier" (308th BG 425th BS; #42-73318). Consolidated B-24J-25-CO Liberator "Burma Queen" (308th BG 425th BS; #42-73253). In China, on one mission a bomber crew would "borrow" "Burma Queen" for a mission and were eventually forced...

Flyers with a P-40 in the CBI. The plane shows the emblem of the "CHINA'S BLITZER" 23rd Fighter Group. "Standing, left-to-right, toward wing of P-40 fighter then on the engine cowl toward the propeller: Hall, Haynes, Rogers, Anderson, Bavuso, Machin, Nollmeyer CO, Davis, Stiles, Norton, Weller, Marshall, Baglio, Headly, Deveer, Macdonald. 26-87A.

Flyers with a P-40 in the CBI. The plane shows the emblem of the "CHINA'S BLITZER" 23rd Fighter Group.

View from B-25s of the 22nd Bombardment Squadron in flight over SW China, Indochina, or Burma during WWII--Happy for the rare escort by P-40s (with external fuel tanks to extend range).

Aircraft flown by Richard D. Harris during WWII--AT-6 Advance Trainer, and P-40 Tomahawk.

P-40 fighter #65, probably tail #2105234, of the 80th Fighter Group, the “Burma Banshees,” on pavement at an airbase in in Burma during WWII.

Stanley Mamlock in P-40 cockpit in the CBI during WWII.

A row of tightly packed American aircraft at at an airstrip in Burma, probably in 1944, including B-25, P-40, C-47, P-47, etc. Apparently they were not concerned about Japanese air raids given the tight layout. Aircraft in Burma near the 797th Engineer Forestry Company. During WWII.

A P-40 fighter at an airstrip in Burma. Aircraft in Burma near the 797th Engineer Forestry Company. During WWII.

A destroyed P-40 of the 26th Fighter Squadron, a "China Blitzers" fighter, attached to the 51st Fighter Group. In China during WWII. See another view here.