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Tomahawk
Manufacturer : Curtiss
A total of sixteen Royal Air Force squadrons used the Tomahawk from British bases, and five more squadrons in the Middle East, as well as South African and Australian units. The Curtiss Tomahawk equipped the legendary Flying Tigers of the American Volunteer Group in China, in 1941, before the United States was officialy at war with Japan. In all, 16,802 Curtiss Tomahawks in a succession of improved models, were mainly built for the US Air Force. |
Tomahawk
Tomahawk Artwork Collection |
Chennault's Flying Tigers by Robert Taylor. | Summer of 42 by John D Shaw. | Flying Tiger by Nicolas Trudgian. |
Tiger Fire by Nicolas Trudgian. | Curtiss Tomahawks by Roy Cross. | Curtiss Tomahawk IIB by Jerry Boucher. |
Tomahawk and Kittyhawk Aces of the RAF and Commonwealth. | America Strikes Back by Robert Taylor | Flying Tigers by Stan Stokes. |
Flying Tigers and Buffalos by Stan Stokes. | Pappys P-40 by Stan Stokes. | Spoiling the Party by Stan Stokes. |
Tigers Claws by Stan Stokes. | Sayonara Sally by Stan Stokes. |
Top Aces for : Tomahawk | ||
A list of all Aces from our database who are known to have flown this aircraft. A profile page is available by clicking the pilots name. | ||
Name | Victories | Info |
Andrew Barr | 12.00 | The signature of Andrew Barr features on some of our artwork - click here to see what is available. |
Bobby Gibbes | 10.50 | The signature of Bobby Gibbes features on some of our artwork - click here to see what is available. |
Squadrons for : Tomahawk | ||
A list of all squadrons from known to have used this aircraft. A profile page is available by clicking the squadron name. | ||
Squadron | Info | |
Country : UK Founded : 25th July 1917 Fate : Disbanded 1st July 1957 Swift in destruction | No.112 Sqn RAF Full profile not yet available. | |
Country : UK Founded : 15th June 1942 Fate : Disbanded 26th February 1945 Rerum cognoscere causas - To know the cause of things. | No.168 Sqn RAF Full profile not yet available. | |
Country : UK Founded : 13th May 1912 Hereward - Guardian of the Army | No.2 Sqn RAF Full profile not yet available. | |
Country : UK Founded : August 1918 Fate : Disbanded 1st July 1945 Exploramus - We seek out | No.239 Sqn RAF Full profile not yet available. | |
Country : UK Founded : August 1918 Fate : Disbanded 14th August 1945 Find and forewarn | No.241 Sqn RAF Full profile not yet available. | |
Country : UK Founded : 10th May 1918 Fate : Disbanded 30th December 1946 Close to the sun | No.250 Sqn RAF Full profile not yet available. | |
Country : UK Founded : 8th October 1915 Fate : Disbanded 1st April 1976 N Wagter in die Lug - A guard in the sky | No.26 Sqn RAF Full profile not yet available. | |
Country : UK Founded : August 1918 Fate : Disbanded 19th August 1945 Celer et fortis - Swift and strong | No.260 Sqn RAF Full profile not yet available. | |
Country : UK Founded : August 1918 Fate : Disbanded 31st March 1946 Adjidaumo - Tail in the air | No.268 Sqn RAF Full profile not yet available. | |
Country : Australia Click the name above to see prints featuring aircraft of No.3 Sqn RAAF | No.3 Sqn RAAF Full profile not yet available. | |
Country : UK Founded : 9th January 1943 Fate : Disbanded 24th October 1946 Belgian Click the name above to see prints featuring aircraft of No.349 Sqn RAF | No.349 Sqn RAF Full profile not yet available. | |
Country : Canada Founded : 1st March 1941 Fate : Disbanded 7th August 1945 Percussuri vigeles - On the watch to strike | No.400 Sqn RCAF Full profile not yet available. | |
Country : Canada Founded : 19th February 1941 Fate : Disbanded 30th June 1945 Wolf Stalk and strike | No.403 Sqn RCAF Full profile not yet available. | |
Country : Canada Founded : 12th August 1941 Fate : Disbanded 7th August 1945 Imperial Totis viribus - With all our might | No.414 Sqn RCAF Full profile not yet available. |
Signatures for : Tomahawk | |||||
A list of all signatures from our database who are associated with this aircraft. A profile page is available by clicking their name. | |||||
Name | Info | ||||
Wing Commander Nicky Barr Click the name above to see prints signed by Wing Commander Nicky Barr
| Wing Commander Nicky Barr Born 10th December 1915. Nicky Barr was commissioned as a pilot officer in November 1940, joining No.23 Sqn, patrolling Queensland, but soon joined No.3 Sqn RAAF flying the Tomahawk. During the war in the desert at El Alamein, he was successful against several enemy aircraft before being shot down himself, being wounded and forced to crash land. While escaping the enemy lines he was wounded again, but reached the safety of Allied lines after a three day desert trek. On 30th May 1942, he was again forced to crash land by enemy fire, but again he returned to fly again. During the fighting around Tobruk, he was shot down once more, baling out injured from his burning aircraft, but this time he became a prisoner of the Italians. Months later he attempted to escape, reaching the Swiss border before being captured once more. Whilst being moved to Germany as a POW, he jumped from a moving train to escape, only to be recaptured weeks later by the Germans. Once more he escaped, conducting sabotage operations, and in March 1944, organising escapes for other POWs. Later in 1944 he became an instructor in Australia, leaving the RAAF after the war. He died 12th June 2006. | ||||
Flight Lieutenant Bryan Colston Click the name above to see prints signed by Flight Lieutenant Bryan Colston | Flight Lieutenant Bryan Colston Bryan Colston was born in Buckinghamshire on 27 May 1921 and was educated at St Pauls School. He joined the RAFVR in 1940, training on Tiger Moths, Oxfords and Lysanders, becoming a fighter reconnaissance pilot with 225 Squadron in 1941. He served with 225 Sqn until July 1943 and became a Flight Commander in 1942. He flew Lysanders, Tomahawks, Hurricanes, Mustangs and Spitfires serving throughout the Tunisian campaign and flying over a hundred operational sorties. He contracted typhoid fever at the end of the campaign and was invalided back to the UK, where, after periods of instructing at 61 OTU and some staff appointments, he commanded 695 Squadron flying Spitfire XVIs. | ||||
Bobby Gibbes Click the name or photo above to see prints signed by Bobby Gibbes
| Bobby Gibbes Born 6th May 1916. Bobby Gibbes began pilot training in 1940, and by June 1941 was flying Tomahawks with No3 RAAF Sqn. By February 1942, he was commanding the squadron. Upgrading to the Kittyhawk, he had more aerial victories, before being forced to bale out on May 26th 1942. On December 21st 1942, during an action in the Western Desert, an aircraft from the squadron was forced to crash land a few miles from the target. Gibbes landed his aircraft in the rocky desert, aiming to pick up the downed pilot. He ditched his own parachute, sitting on the pilots lap in the cockpit. On take-off, one wheel fell off the aircraft after colliding with an object on the groud, but he managed to land the aircraft on the one remaining wheel, avoiding a damaging belly landing. He was then shot down behind enemy lines, evading capture for three days before being rescued. He returned to Australia, and was injured during a training flight crash. He died 11th April 2007. | ||||
Flight Lieutenant Bill Green Click the name or photo above to see prints signed by Flight Lieutenant Bill Green | Flight Lieutenant Bill Green In December 1936, Bill Green joined the Auxiliary Air Force as an aero engine fitter with 501 Squadron at Filton, near Bristol. Shortly before the start of the Second World War, he was given a rare chance for an engine fitter. In 1938 he joined a scheme to recruit NCO pilots, qualifying as a Flight Sergeant and re-joined 501 at Bristol in July 1940. Sgt Bill Green had completed just 10 hours of dual flying â€" with an instructor. In October, he was sent for further flying instruction and on October 30th he had his first solo flight in a Magister aircraft. After more training â€" and getting married on June 3rd â€" he flew a Hurricane for the first time on August 8th 1940, when the Battle of Britain had been raging for a month. He flew from Kenley throughout the Battle of Britain until November, surviving being shot down twice, before being posted to 504 Squadron. After a spell instructing on Spitfires and Tomahawks, he converted to Typhoons, and from November 1944 served with 56 Squadron on Tempests. He flew more than 50 missions in Tempest fighter aircraft with 56 Squadron. He was shot down over Germany on February 22nd 1945 and spent the last three months of the war as a prisoner of war. After the war, Green enjoyed a hugely successful business career, ending up as the managing director and chairman of Crown Paints, before retiring on his 60th birthday. | ||||
Lt General Joe Moore Click the name above to see prints signed by Lt General Joe Moore | Lt General Joe Moore Joining the service in 1937, Joe Moore flew P40 Tomahawks with the 323rd Tactical Fighter Wing out of Clark Field in the Philippines and accumulated over 100 combat missions in the Pacific, including two victories over Japanese Zeroes. He later transferred to fly P47s in Europe, taking part in the Normandy invasion. | ||||
Brigadier General Kenneth Taylor Click the name or photo above to see prints signed by Brigadier General Kenneth Taylor
| Brigadier General Kenneth Taylor Ken Taylor was one of the Armys heroes on December 7th, twice engaging the retiring Japanese planes in his P40 Tomahawk. Together, he and George Welch managed to get airborne - some of the very few who managed to do so. Ken was wounded but together they managed to down six Japanese aircraft that day. For his presence of mind and coolness under fire against overwhleming odds, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. He died 25th November 2006. |
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