In all, the P-40 proved itself a worthy and rugged fighter. The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk was the third most widely produced American fighter of World War II, after the North American P-51 Mustang and the ...

Call it the Warhawk, the Kittyhawk, or the Tomahawk. The Curtiss P-40 was a pivotal American piston engine fighter that held down the fort until P-47 Thunderbolt and P-51 Mustang arrived and slowly ...

In 2023, the American Heritage Museum acquired a Republic P-47D Thunderbolt as part of an exchange with the National Museum of the United States Air Force (NMUSAF), trading its Tuskegee PT-17 Stearman ...

“The P-47 was one of the most versatile aircraft we had in World War II,” says Jeremy Kinney, curator and chair of the aeronautics department at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, which ...

In the hierarchy of American fighter planes during World War II, the top will be forever populated by the P-51 Mustang and not much of anything else. The Mustang may get all the glory, but if you were ...

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EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The P-47 Thunderbolt “Tarheel Hal” which returned to Evansville in October, has been renamed “Hoosier Spirit II" and might be designated as the official state aircraft of Indiana.