Boyd Wagner
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Lieutenant Colonel Boyd David "Buzz" Wagner was an American aviator and the first United States Army Air Forces fighter ace of World War II.
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Original Hangars and Flightline - Thirteenth Air Force (Clark Freeport Zone)
Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
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The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk is an American single-engined, single-seat, all-metal fighter-bomber that first flew in 1938. The P-40 design was a modification of the previous Curtiss P-36 Hawk which reduce
Boyd Wagner
…Squadron stationed at Nichols Field on December 8, 1941, when the first Japanese air attacks struck the Philippines. On December 12, Wagner took off in a Curtiss P-40 on a solo reconnaissance mission over Aparri, where he was attacked by Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters. He dove away from the attacking planes…
A restored P-40M Warhawk landing at Season Premier Airshow, in Shuttleworth, UK
Curtiss XP-40 "11" used for test purposes by the Materiel Division of the US Army Air Corps
A three-quarter view of a P-40B, X-804 (s/n 39-184) in flight. This aircraft served with an advanced training unit at Luke Field, Arizona.
Evidence of the P-40's durability: in 1944 F/O T. R. Jacklin (pictured) flew this No. 75 Squadron RAAF P-40N-5 more than 200 mi (322 km) after the loss of the port aileron and 25% of its wing area, due to a mid-air collision with another P-40N-5.