[Milsurplus] Your Tax Dollars At Work: P-39 Airacobra

[Hubert Miller]

For ground attack on the East Front. The P-39 couldn't keep up with Japanese fighters.
-H 

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From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of George Babits
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Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Your Tax Dollars At Work: P-39 Airacobra

>From what I have heard,  the P-39s were sent to Russia.  I talked to one of the old timers here 10 or so years ago and he remembered that several of them "crashed" around here (Salmon, Idaho) when they ran out of fuel on their way to Russia via Alaska.  They were all picked up, hauled out by truck, repaired, and maybe eventually made it to Russia.

73,
George
W7HDL