P-40C Tomahawk (US Army Air Forces) Pearl Harbor and other theaters.
In 1937, Curtiss refitted a previously developed P36 fighter jet with an Allison V-1710-19 liquid-cooled engine. The military project code for this aircraft was XP-40. The aircraft successfully flew for the first time in October of the following year and reached a high speed of 587 kilometers per hour. In April 1939, the P-40A type ordered by the US Army began to be put into production and the B and C types were successively improved in the following years. Among them, the P-40C type (also known as Hawk81 A-2) adds a self-sealing fuel tank on the basis of the B type, which effectively improves the overall protection of the fuel system. At the same time, an anti-ground weapon rack is added, which can mount auxiliary fuel tanks or light bombs. The main armament is two 12.7mm nose machine guns and four 7.62mm machine guns on the main wings. The USAAF operates 193 P-40Cs. Most of these aircraft were deployed to Hawaii and the Philippines in the Pacific Ocean. On the day of the outbreak of the Pacific War, U.S. troops stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and Clark in the Philippines were attacked by Japanese naval air forces. Although the losses were heavy, the P-40C piloted by Captain Ken Taylor forcibly launched into the air to face it, and achieved the record of shooting down two Japanese Type 99 carrier-based dive bombers. After the United States entered the war, some P-40Cs were also deployed to European theaters such as the United Kingdom and Iceland. As new aircraft continued to join, the relatively outdated P-40Cs gradually withdrew from the frontline troops.
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