This aircraft is a Kittyhawk (the export version of the P-40E built for the RAF). It is painted to represent the aircraft flown by then-Col. Bruce Holloway, a pilot in both the Flying Tigers and its successor Army Air Forces unit, the 23rd Fighter Group. This P-40 was obtained from Charles Doyle, Rosemount, Minn.
Curtiss P-40E
Warhawk
The P-40 was the foremost U.S. fighter in service when World War II began. P-40s fought the Japanese during the attack on Pearl Harbor, the invasion of the Philippines in December 1941, and were flown in China early in 1942 by the Flying Tigers.