A naval version for Warhawk?

[Guest ericthered1975]

I share with you some pictures of fighters Curtiss P-40 operating aboard aircraft carriers or on the flight deck. Some questions for aviation and history enthusiasts of WW2. There was a naval version of the P-40? Which countries have used during the war and which Operating Theatres? To view photos visit the link below:

 

http://aviacaoemfloripa.blogspot.com.br/2011/02/curtiss-p-40-em-porta-avioes.html

 

Best Regards,

 

Eric

 

 

[Kiwi303]

Nah, I think they're just shipping them.

 

NZ used P-40s in the pacific after the fall of Singapore, Prior to that most NZ units in the far east were Hurricane, but once Singapore fell we ended up mostly with US manufactured birds like the Buffalo and P-40 in the pacific and asian battles.

 

488NZ squadron RAF was a colonial defence unit, RAF funded the planes and NZ provided and trained the pilots under the commonwealth air force scheme. They were in Singapore with Brewsters as a green unit, re-equipped with Hurricanes as they arrived for the defence after Japan entered the war, withdrawn from Singapore back to NZ where the pilots were later reformed as RNZAF 14 Sqn with Harvards and later Kittyhawkss, finishing the war with Corsairs.

 

Meanwhile 488NZ RAF was reformed a little later in England as a Beaufighter unit.

 

The European units all remained Brit planes, Hurricanes, Typhoons, Spitfires, Tempests, Beaufighters.

 

If you look, one photo has them being craned on board, they have no arrestors to make a captive landing.

 

The flying photos would be just taking off to land at the destination where there is no chance to trundle them down the road from the docks to the airfield.

 

 

[Kiwi303]

P.S.

 

Third photo down, the naval planes are a different make than the Kittyhawks, vertical stabiliser is shaped differently, counterweights at end of elevators extend right to the end of the elevator "L" style rather than inset "T" style, ailerons extend out to end at the curve of the wing, not rectilinear inset in the wing, open rear gunners position at the rear of the canopy.

 

They look like torpedo planes to me. SB2 Brewster Buccaneers from the wing design?

 

 

[red750]

Kiwi303 is right. In Feb, 1943 pilots of the 58th FG flew 74 P-40's off the USS Ranger to the newly captured Vichy airbase at Cazaz near Morocco. The P-40 was unsuitable for carrier landing due to the rearward folding main undercarriage.

 

 

[Capn Wannabe]

P.S.Third photo down, the naval planes are a different make than the Kittyhawks, vertical stabiliser is shaped differently, counterweights at end of elevators extend right to the end of the elevator "L" style rather than inset "T" style, ailerons extend out to end at the curve of the wing, not rectilinear inset in the wing, open rear gunners position at the rear of the canopy.

 

They look like torpedo planes to me. SB2 Brewster Buccaneers from the wing design?

They'd be Douglas Dautless dive bombers..