Known as the “Ghost P-40,” this Curtiss P-40 Warhawk became one of aviation history’s most haunting mysteries. Discovered in 1942 by Allied patrols deep in the Egyptian desert, it was remarkably ...

Lyle T. Boley VIRGINIA BEACH – Dr. Lyle T. “Doc” Boley, 93, passed away Oct. 11, 2010 in Virginia Beach. A native of Kansas, he was born on a farm five miles south of Topeka. World War II interrupted ...

Call it the Warhawk, the Kittyhawk, or the Tomahawk. The Curtiss P-40 was a pivotal American piston engine fighter that held down the fort until P-47 Thunderbolt and P-51 Mustang arrived and slowly ...

Cottrell ended the war with sixty-five combat missions under his belt in his trusty P-47. As The National Interest has recently reported, World War II fighter pilots (not to mention WWII veterans in ...

The Glenn H Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport, New York, is a warehouse-sized facility filled with artifacts from the Curtiss Airplane and Motor Corporation, the brainchild of Hammondsport's favorite ...

In all, the P-40 proved itself a worthy and rugged fighter. The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk was the third most widely produced American fighter of World War II, after the North American P-51 Mustang and the ...