INTRODUCTION

You're a fighter Pilot now. your fingers are itching to get at the controls of a P-51 or a P-47. You may be a little disappointed that you have to spend a few weeks flying a P-40

Well, don't been you learn to fly the P-40 there won't be a fighter you can't handle. The P-40 is no cinch to fly; it's fast and skittish and responds like lightning to controls. The savvy you pick up in the P-40 is going to make you a good pilot in any fighter. And don't think of the- P-40 as a sort of glorified advanced trainer.

It's a combat airplane it's still being flown in China, the Pacific andthe Mediterranean and it's still shooting downJaps and Jerries.

True, no more P-40's are being war theaters. Instead we are sending P-47's,P-51's, P-38 is and even newer aircraft. We're sending them for a good reason: they're better aircraft than the P-40. In the air war we must have constant progress if we are to keep winning. The enemy's aircraft have been improved; ours must be even better. So the P-40 has made way for the new fighters.