Cold Weather Warbirds

[Jack Cook]

Iceland 1941-43 Note that while the mechs are digging out the pilots are tossing snowballs.






Snowball fight!

[Holedigger]

Thanks Jack, those prints are Cool! (yup, pun intended) Think I'll go out and sit on the front porch in bare feet and warm up!

I really like the P-40 with the collapsed rt gear. Tholse mountains.....get me thinking.....
Is that also Iceland or is it in the Aleutians?

[Jack Cook]

The photo caption said Iceland.

[51fixer]

The photo caption said Iceland.

I suppose I'm to fix those as well.
Jim isn't gonna like that work load.
Thats why we have ours in the nice warm hangar this time of year.
Happy New Year to you all.
Rich

[Holedigger]

Thanks Jack. The one with the snowball fighters is a good reminder as well that most of the pilots were such young men. Good thing they weren't playing in the snow with the crew in the background digging! I can just see it. "Hey kid, dig your own plane out!"

The Russians had so much trouble with the P-40s in the cold, were ours in the Aleutians and Iceland much the same or the difference being spares available and better maintenance?

[Django]

I'd say that's a well earned post-flight stress reliever. Look at how clean the P-40 is. Great pics as usual.