nassio%ssp23@das.harvard.edu (George Nassiopoulos) (09/25/90)
From: nassio%ssp23@das.harvard.edu (George Nassiopoulos) > From: ran el-Yaniv <yaniv%shum.huji.ac.il@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> > > Thanks! The nickname list was very interesting! Luvly... > > Question - does anyone recognize the following nickname? I way it once in a > book (which I no longer have), and it stuck. > > P-400 (a P-40 with a Zero on its tail). > the following quote is from a illustration caption on p. 113 of: _The History of the U.S. Air Force_ by David A. Anderton Published by Crescent Books "A joke in the Pacific theater was 'What's a P-400? answer - a P-40 with a Zero on it's tail.' What the joker seldom realized was that there was a P-400; it was the official AAF designation of [Bell, P-39] Airacobras passed back after rejection by the RAF, and still fitted with the British 20-mm. Hispano cannon." George Nassiopoulos nassio@cfa.harvard.edu