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P-40 at Wheeler AAF

Posted by Roger Cain on Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:37:06 PM

In reply top P-40 near Honolulu posted by george on Wed Mar 03, 2004 07:24:14 PM

In 1998, I took my fathers ashes to Pearl Harbor (his favorite place) and visited some airfields around Honolulu. At Wheeler AAF, there is a mock-up P-40B that looks good from the distance. According to the information with it, the plane was used in the "Tora, Tora, Tora" movie and was donated by 20th Century Fox Film Corporation to Wheeler AAF. It was restored by the 22nd Tactical Air Support Squadron in 1974............Roger Cain

: I don't know if its still there, but there was a P-40 on d
: isplay at some military barracks near Honolulu in 1973. O
: D paint, did not have "flying tiger" teeth. Upper inner l
: eft wing had PW14 in white. No one was around, so I got t
: o check it out pretty closely. I believe it was an E model
: .

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