"Ian McKellan" wrote in message
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Why is this P-40 called a "Kittyhawk?"

http://www.aviationclassics.org.uk/images/kittyhawk.jpg

I thought all US P-40 aircraft were Warhawks and British P-40 aircraft
Tomahawks.

Please clarify this.

The P-40 had nearly 14,000 aircraft produced. There were numerous models, A
thru N, with varying numbers of each type. From what I understand, from the
D model forward the Commonwealth nations called them Kittyhawks. The
British apparently called theirs Tomahawks, but they bought relatively few
of them early in the war as gap-fillers. Some models with larger engines
(than the first production model) and more guns were called Warhawks by the
USA.