Section of engine rocker cover : P-40E fighter : 2LT N Takala : 49th Fighter Group USAAF

Place Oceania: Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Fairbairn
Accession Number REL33528
Collection type Technology
Object type Technology
Maker Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Place made United States of America
Date made c 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Description

Part of rocker cover from V-1710-33 Alison inline engine.

History / Summary

Fitted to P-40E Kittyhawk (serial 41-5602) fighter that fatally crashed on 28 March 1942 near Eden New South Wales when being flown by 2LT Neal T Takala, of the 8th Pursuit Squadron of the 49th Fighter Group United States Army Air Force.