Arch Simpson Arch Simpson

TADJI — and the Boys Down Under

In April of 1944, a 78 Squadron RAAF P-40N Kittyhawk, nicknamed "Come in Suckers!" met her end along the northern coast of Papua New Guinea landing on a muddy and miserable airfield known as Tadji…

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Dave O'Malley Dave O'Malley

KITTYHAWK DISCOVERY — Found after 70 years

Some time in 1942, a lone Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk bearing the 260 Squadron “HS” squadron code and the aircraft letter “B” settled down over a wide and remote expanse of North African sand desert called Al Wadi al Jadid…

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Dave O'Malley Dave O'Malley

HERO — A Flying Tribute to a Missing Aviator

Vintage Wings of Canada's core program called In His Name dedicates each of the eighteen aircraft of the collection to a Canadian veteran, famous or otherwise, native or foreign born, who had an association with …

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