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Aviation History: September 2000 LettersAviation History Archives | 0 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post Interestingly enough (as you pointed out in subsequent correspondence), the first contingent of P-400 fighters on Guadalcanal was from the Army Air Corps 67th Fighter Squadron. According to Edwin P. Hoyt’s book Guadalcanal, a part of the 67th Squadron that was brought to the field on Guadalcanal was equipped with P-400s, “an advanced version of the P-39 but a plane that was incapable of attaining 20,000 feet, the height at which the Japanese liked to come in and drop down out of the sun.” Subscribe Today
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