William S. Knudsen, Chairman of the Office of Production Management, and
Major General Henry H. 'Hap' Arnold, Chief of the United States Army Air Corps,
inspect a P-40 under construction at Curtiss Plant #1 during September of 1940.


Project 914 Archives (S.Donacik collection) - Larger Image
News Tag on Reverse of Print

A Tomahawk for the Royal Air Force under construction at Plant #1.


Project 914 Archives (S.Donacik collection) - Larger Image

A trio of newly constructed P-40Es stands just outside the equally new Curtiss Plant #2
at the Buffalo Airport in Cheektowaga, New York, mid-1941.


From an ish of the 'Curtiss Fly Leaf' - Larger Image

A wonderfully atmospheric night-time photo, taken outside Curtiss Plant #2 at the Buffalo
Airport during 1941. 'Tis a good illustration of the fact that the US aeronautical industry was
already gearing up and beginning to operate 24/7, even before the USA had entered the war.


Project 914 Archives - Ken Hedrich photo - Larger Image

A P-40E-1 on the gun range at Plant #2, sometime during the winter of 1941-42.
This is one of a series of photos which will be presented here on the site in the future.


Project 914 Archives (S.Donacik collection) - Larger Image

Walter Klee, firing range foreman, holds up a destroyed port wing from a P-40
that's been used as a target on the gun range at Plant #2, August of 1943.


Project 914 Archives (S.Donacik collection) - Larger Image

An early P-40F and C-46A under construction at Plant #2 during February of 1942.


Project 914 Archives - Larger Image
News Tag on Reverse of Print

Later P-40Fs and C-46As at Plant #2, August of 1942.


Project 914 Archives - Larger Image

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