Editing Curtiss P-40 Warhawk (section)

==Notable P-40 pilots==
[[File:Jacqueline Cochran in a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk.jpg|thumb|[[Jacqueline Cochran|Jackie Cochran]] in the cockpit of a P-40 fighter aircraft. She was head of the [[Women Airforce Service Pilots]] (WASP).]]
[[File:Curtiss P-40N on ground.jpg|thumb|P-40N 44–7369]]
*[[Nicky Barr]]: RAAF ace (11 victories); also a member of the [[Australia national rugby union team]].
*[[Gregory Boyington]]: AVG/US Marine Corps; later commanded USMC [[VMF-214]], the "Black Sheep Squadron".
*[[Clive Caldwell]]: RAAF, highest-scoring P-40 pilot from any air force (22 victories); highest-scoring Allied pilot in North Africa;<ref name="Alexander">{{cite book |last1=Alexander |first1=Kristin |title=Clive Caldwell, air ace |url=https://archive.org/details/clivecaldwellair00alex |url-access=limited |date=2006 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |location=Crows Nest, NSW |isbn=1-74114-705-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/clivecaldwellair00alex/page/n106 85]}}</ref> Australia's highest-scoring ace in World War II (28.5 victories).
*[[Levi R. Chase]]: USAAF; leading US P-40 ace in the Mediterranean theater, with 10 claims; CO 60th Fighter Squadron, 33rd Fighter Group; retired with the rank of Major General.
*[[Claire Chennault]]: commander, 1st American Volunteer Group (AVG; better known as the "Flying Tigers"), Chinese Air Force.
*[[cmn:周志開|Chikai Chou]], the CO of the Chinese Air Force P-40E-equipped [[Development of Chinese Nationalist air force (1937–1945)#Units of the Chinese Nationalist Air Force 1937–1945|23rd PS, 4th PG]] and ace who famously "hijacked" a USAAF [[Vultee P-66 Vanguard|P-66]] at [[Liangping Airport|Liangshan Airbase]] as it was being raided by [[Imperial Japanese Army Air Service]] aircraft; he pursued the raiders shooting down two [[Kawasaki Ki-48]] bombers, while 11 of his comrade's P-40Es were destroyed on the ground in that raid.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Chen|first=C. Peter|date=2016|title=Zhou Zhikai|url=https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=969|access-date=2021-01-05|website=WW2DB|quote=Captain Zhou Zhikai (Chou Chih-kai) who had just landed in a P-40E fighter after a ground support mission, commandeered a P-66 Vanguard fighter belonging to US Army Air Forces parked nearby and shot down two Ki-48 aircraft and damaged another. Zhou was later awarded the Order of Blue Sky and White Sun for this action.}}</ref>
*Daniel H. David: USAAF; later famous as the comedian and actor [[Dan Rowan]]; scored two victories and was wounded, while flying P-40s in the South West Pacific.
*[[Billy Drake]]: RAF, the leading British P-40 ace, with 13 victories.
*[[Neville Duke]]: RAF Leading Allied ace in the Mediterranean theater with 27 victories (including eight in P-40); post-war a test pilot and holder of the world air speed record.
*[[James Francis Edwards]]: RCAF, 15.75 victories (12 on the P-40); also wrote two books about British Commonwealth Kittyhawk pilots.<ref name="Shores">Shores and Ring 1969</ref>{{page needed|date=November 2023}}
*[[Geoff Fisken]]: RNZAF, the highest scoring British Commonwealth ace in the Pacific theater (11 victories), including five victories in Kittyhawks.
*[[John Frost (pilot)|Jack Frost]]: SAAF, the highest scoring air ace in a South African unit, with 15 victories (seven on the P-40); missing in action since 16 June 1942.<ref name="Shores"/>
*[[Herschel Green|Herschel "Herky" Green]]: USAAF; 18 victory claims (including three in P-40s) while flying for the 325th Fighter Group in North Africa and Italy.
*[[John Gorton]]: RAAF; [[Prime Minister of Australia]], 1968–1971. Gorton survived a near-fatal crash in a Hurricane IIb at Singapore in 1942; later flew Kittyhawks with [[No. 77 Squadron RAAF|No. 77 Squadron]] in New Guinea and became an instructor on the type.
*[[John F. Hampshire]]: USAAF; equal top-scoring US P-40 pilot (13 victory claims), all over China with the 75th FS (23rd FG), 1942–1943; killed in action.  
*[[David Lee Hill|David Lee "Tex" Hill]]: AVG/USAAF, 2nd Squadron AVG and 23rd FG USAAF, 12¼ P-40 victories (18¼ total).
*[[Bruce K. Holloway]]: AVG/USAAF, equal top-scoring US P-40 pilot (13 victories); later commander of USAF [[Strategic Air Command]] and retired with the rank of General (four&nbsp;star).<ref>''United States Air Force Museum'' 1975, p. 26.</ref>
*[[James H. Howard]]: AVG/USAAF, six victories in P-40s; later, the only fighter pilot to receive the [[Medal of Honor]] for service over Europe, while flying a P-51; retired with the rank of Brigadier-General in 1966.
*[[Nikolai Fedorovitch Kuznetsov]]: VVS; the highest-scoring Soviet P-40 ace;<ref name="Romanenko"/> credited with 22 victories while flying Hurricanes, P-40s and P-39s; twice awarded [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] (''GSS''); also awarded the British [[Order of British Empire|OBE]].
*[[Pyotr Pokryshev]]: (Pyotr Afanasyevich Pokryshev) AV-MF (Soviet Naval); twice awarded ''GSS''; 11 victory claims (out of a total of 22) made while flying P-40s, as commander of 154th IAP.<ref name="Romanenko"/>
*[[Boris Safonov]]: AV-MF (Soviet Naval Aviation); Soviet quadruple (25 victory) ace and twice awarded ''GSS''; shot down three Ju-88 bombers in one engagement while flying a P-40E, over the Baltic.<ref name="Romanenko"/>
*[[Robert Lee Scott, Jr.]]: USAAF, commander of the 23rd FG, China; more than 10 victories in P-40s.
*[[Kenneth M. Taylor]]: USAAF; one of only two US pilots to get airborne (in a P-40) during the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]] (7 December 1941), during which he shot down two aircraft and was wounded in the arm.
*[[Keith Truscott]]: RAAF; pre-war star of [[Australian rules football|Australian football]]; became an ace flying Spitfires in the UK during 1941, before flying Kittyhawks over New Guinea and Australia; commanded 76 Sqn RAAF at the [[Battle of Milne Bay]] (1942); killed in an accident while flying a P-40 (1943).
*[[Clinton D. "Casey" Vincent]]: USAAF; six victory claims while flying P-40s over China.
* [[John Lloyd Waddy|John Waddy]]: RAAF; 12½ victory claims while flying P-40s over North Africa.
*[[Boyd Wagner]]: USAAF; while flying P-40s, Wagner became the first USAAF ace of the war, during the Philippines campaign (1941–1942).
*[[Len Waters]]: RAAF, the only [[indigenous Australian|Aboriginal Australian]] fighter pilot of World War II.
*[[George Welch (pilot)|George Welch]]: USAAF; one of only two US fighter pilots to get airborne during the first attack on Pearl Harbor, in a P-40; Welch claimed three Japanese aircraft that day.