{"id":1649,"date":"2018-03-14T16:51:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T16:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=1649"},"modified":"2018-03-14T16:51:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T16:51:47","slug":"p-40-warhawk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/things\/p-40-warhawk\/","title":{"rendered":"P-40 Warhawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First appearing in 1941, the American fighter aircraft was considered fast, maneuverable and heavily armed. It served well early in WWII, particularly in Africa and the Pacific.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1646\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1646\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Curtiss_P-40E_Warhawk_2_USAF.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1646\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Curtiss_P-40E_Warhawk_2_USAF-1024x723.jpg\" alt=\"DAYTON, Ohio -- Curtiss P-40E Warhawk at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo)\" width=\"474\" height=\"335\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Curtiss_P-40E_Warhawk_2_USAF-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Curtiss_P-40E_Warhawk_2_USAF-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Curtiss_P-40E_Warhawk_2_USAF-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Curtiss_P-40E_Warhawk_2_USAF.jpg 1699w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DAYTON, Ohio &#8212; Curtiss P-40E Warhawk at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the war progressed, other higher performance fighter aircraft were introduced, among them the P-51 Mustang and P-47 Thunderbolt, which replaced the P-40 in many front line squadrons. The P-40 still served well in the role of advanced trainers for Army pilots.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1650\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Hells_Angels_Flying_Tigers_1942.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1650\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Hells_Angels_Flying_Tigers_1942-1024x827.jpg\" alt=\"Hells_Angels,_Flying_Tigers_1942\" width=\"474\" height=\"383\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Hells_Angels_Flying_Tigers_1942-1024x827.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Hells_Angels_Flying_Tigers_1942-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Hells_Angels_Flying_Tigers_1942-768x620.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hells_Angels,_Flying_Tigers_1942<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First appearing in 1941, the American fighter aircraft was considered fast, maneuverable and heavily armed. It served well early in WWII, particularly in Africa and the Pacific. As the war progressed, other higher performance fighter aircraft were introduced, among them the P-51 Mustang and P-47 Thunderbolt, which replaced the P-40 in many front line squadrons. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/things\/p-40-warhawk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">P-40 Warhawk<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1649\/revisions\/1651"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}