Curtiss P-40B, 2nd Lt. Kenneth Taylor, 47th PS, 15th PG, USAAC, Haleiwa Air Base, Hawaii. 2nd Lt. Kenneth Taylor was one of eleven American pilots who managed to get their planes off the ground and engage the Japanese on the morning of December 7th, 1941 during the...
My next ‘big’ profile project is P-40E thru N models. I’ve dug out my collection of original Curtiss engineering drawings from my archive and am now sifting through over 3000 of them for the ones necessary to create my master scale drawings that the...
Curtiss Hawk H81-A-2, P-8184, #44 of the A.V.G. Second Squadron Flight Leader Peter Wright, Rangoon, China, January 1942. Click the gallery thumbnail below for a larger...
Curtiss Hawk H81-A-2, P-8134, #48 of the A.V.G. Second Squadron, David Lee ‘Tex’ Hill, Toungoo, China, December 1941. ‘Tex’ Hill started his aviation career in the U.S. Navy flying TBD Devastators and SB2U Vindicators. He volunteered to join...
Curtiss Hawk H81-A-2, P-8138, #57 of the A.V.G. Second Squadron Vice Leader James H. Howard, Kunming, China, May 1942. James Howard joined the A.V.G. in June of 1941, and went on to command the A.V.G.’s 2nd Pursuit Squadron. He was officially credited with...
