Wrecked RAF P-40 Kittyhawk found in Egypt

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Originally Posted by Lurch

My father flew around that region he said that there is some large spots of nothing.

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For a very brief time in 1981, I worked in the oil fields of Libya.....you talk about vast expanses of NOTHING! I'm sure there's plenty of military folks here that would agree. But I'd bet there's still tons upon tons of WWII wrecks and vehicles of all kinds strewn all over N. Africa. And weapons, and bones, and uniform pieces.....you name it.

Nice find.

200 miles of nothing, lets go walk through it. Not me.

what about the pilot dam nothin for miles that sucks

Very cool find. A little duct tape, some gas....good to go.

That is pretty interesting.

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Originally Posted by rshives

At least we now know where bum-f#$% Egypt is located now. :)

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This post... It is full of wins and LuLz.

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Originally Posted by ruthabagah

Except that the P40F that were never delivered to the French before the capitulation in 1940 had a mix of Radial engines and later a some were adapted to carry the Hispano-suiza 12Y removed from downed airplanes, or surplus stored in Algeria. They were extensively used in north Africa, because they were already adapted to the local conditions.

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[Citation needed.]

I was mistaken in that the Merlin was tested and flew in combat before the war ended. But no version of the P-40 ever had a radial engine.

P-40F "This version fulfilled the longstanding wish of the British to fit the P-40 with a Merlin engine (which is what ultimately led to the development of the P-51), but it arrived in combat relatively late and ironically, few of this type made it to Commonwealth units.... P-40F/L variants were supplied to Free French squadrons flying in North Africa."

P-40F "The P-40F was powered by a Packard-built Merlin V-1650-1 twelve-cylinder Vee liquid-cooled engine .... One hundred and fifty P-40Fs were supplied to the RAF under Lend-Lease"

That really is amazing!

That's crazy, I can't help but think of the hell that the pilot must have gone through.

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Originally Posted by Ridge

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ra-desert.html

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Great reading.

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Originally Posted by Marlin

I sure if one had the time and inclination to walk around out there or even the islands of the SW Pacific, you could run across all sorts of stuff.

I remember, about mid 1974, a 49 y/o guy walked out of the Phillipine jungle and surrendered. He just never believe the "propaganda" about the war being over.

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Including Amelia Earhart. Rumor has it a Japanese garrison captured her and used her as their concubine.