{"id":3254,"date":"2012-06-27T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/americainuniform\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2012-06-11T22:56:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T22:56:59","slug":"original-kittyhawk-hs-b-found-after-70-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/americainuniform\/2012\/06\/original-kittyhawk-hs-b-found-after-70-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Original Kittyhawk HS-B Found after 70 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Some time in 1942, a lone Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk bearing the 260 Squadron \u201cHS\u201d squadron code and the aircraft letter \u201cB\u201d settled down over a wide and remote expanse of North African sand desert called Al Wadi al Jadid. Perhaps low on fuel, perhaps lost, or with mechanical problems, the RAF pilot chose to land in the vast North African Sahara. With his landing gear locked down, he flared low over the sand and settled onto it. The gear snapped off, the desert camouflaged P-40 collapsed onto its belly and slid for a hundred meters or more shedding its radiators and propeller hub.<\/p>\n

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