Need Help Identifying this WWII font

[sully1251]

Mr. < b >
Thanks for the kind words.

[MadAmanda]

Originally Posted by <b>

By the way Sully, I just looked at your portfolio site and your watercolors. Wow! Absolutely gorgeous work! Amazing.

I don't typically go to the portfolios but I accidentally clicked on your link Sully and just went with it and I am amazed at such detail. I never had the patience for detail work. You are very talented and I tip my hat to you sir.

[sully1251]

Thanks, Madamanda.

[Gromit801]

Originally Posted by sully1251

I can tell you about the plane—it's a P-40 E. This was the final version of the P-40 and wound up seeing duty with the RAF through lend lease. The Warhawk version of the P-40 was the famous fighter of the Flying Tigers.

Ah, close, but no. The final production variant of the P-40 was the P-40N Warhawk. The RAF and the AVG used the P-40B/C/E versions, all of which were eventually retired in favor of the P-51 or Later Spitfires.

[sully1251]

Gromit801— I was off by a notch:

This Royal Austrailian Air Force fighter in question has been identified as a P-40 Kittyhawk. The Kittyhawk was the name the RAF used for the P-40 D.

In the late spring and early summer of 1941 the RAF and the RAAF were flying P-40 Tomahawks in North Africa. The Tomahawk was the name the RAF used for the P-40 B, C and E. The Warhawk was the name that the U.S. Army Air Corps used for all variations of the P-40.

The Flying Tigers (A.V.G.) began their air defense of China flying the P-40 B Warhawk.
None of the P-40s was a match for the Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Me 109 or the Focke-Wulf Fw 190.

[tknight]

Thanks everyone for your contributions! Thanks <b> for your knowledge of fonts and Sully for your knowledge of aviation history!

[sully1251]

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/...ntcmp=obinsite

Here's a wild story that some of you WWII aircraft fans might be interested in.
No. This has nothing to do with typography or long lost fonts.