Cool pix!

Desmond Doss

 

This P40 Curtiss Warhawk is dressed out in Desert Pink camo. Supposedly the color was to blend the aircraft in with the sunsets in the desert regions. Not really sure about the veracity of this statement. The P-40 has the markings of the Flying Tigers in China. And isn't that marking on the tailfin sort of RAF style? Anyone heard of this sort of camo?

 

You missed "Fifinella", the WASP logo designed by Walt Disney, just under the front of the canopy.
EDIT - Forgot to add, the co-founder of the museum & pilot(when this P-40 still flew) was a WASP in WW2.

The "Pink" scheme, was a much softer shade of pink, and more often associated with the B-24.


IIRC, the RAF tricolor on the tail was usually carried by American fighters in the Med. Also, note the P-40 fuselage star insignia is outlined in yellow(used early on American aircraft in the North African campaign.

 

Dang. I couldn't enlarge the pic any larger than what I posted. Makes sense now. That P-40 looked just too pink. That shade of pink on the B-24 looks more believable.

 

Yeah and the pilot is dressed in pink as well. Missed that too. Dang.

 

Pink warfare? Or was there someone under mari influence?

 

Wounded being evacuated from Utah Beach on 6 Jun 44.

Is that a carton of smokes the wounded soldier is carrying?

 

Here's a pic of a M-1 Carbine w/grenade launcher. I've always assumed that only the grenade launcher could only be adapted to the M-1 Garand for some reason. Oh well, learn something new every day around here seems like.

 

The M7 grenade launcher was for the Garand, the M8 grenade launcher was for the carbine.

 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

 

The carbine was not sturdy enough to absorb the recoil of the launcher, and had to be braced sideways or else the recoil would break the stock. So, the carbine was not often used with the launcher.

 

Chesterfields definitely...

 

Ike smoked Chesterfields.

Chesterfield (cigarette) - Wikipedia

 

I had read that some P-40's 'adopted' the sharks mouth after seeing photo's of AVG aircraft. Got to admit the shape of the cowling really lent itself to the design. Didn't some of the B-24's on the Ploesti raid have a similar color scheme?

 

I’ve read years ago that pilots in the AVG saw pix of P-40s in North Africa with the RAF painted with the tiger teeth on the front cowling. They modified the artwork to the tiger shark emblem that they made famous. Who knows.

 

Some bf 110 units had tiger teeth as well