Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
Curtiss built a total of 13,738 P-40's between 1938 and 1944. The P-40 was designated as the Warhawk and constituted the principal armament of the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) fighter squadrons throughout 1942 and 1943. The P-40 was most notably flown by the American Volunteer Group, “Flying Tigers” in China 1941 and by Ken Taylor & George Welch during the attack on Pearl Harbor December 7th, 1941.
Flying Tiger Flight Leader: Ken Jernstedt
Ken Jernstedt became the American Volunteer Group’s
fifth-ranking ace, destroying
more than 10 Japanese
aircraft flying the P-40.
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