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A Curtiss P-40B keeping company with a Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver in Western New York skies, circa 1941. Production of the SBC had pretty much wound down at this point, whereas production of the P-40 was just beginning to ramp up; only a few hundred had been produced of an eventual 13,738...

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