The U.S. Army Air Forces Curtiss P-40L <i>Warhawk</i> flown by 1st Lt. (later Maj.) Charles B. Hall of Brazil, Indiana (USA), 99th Fighter Squadron, 33rd Fighter Group, in North Africa. On Friday, 2 July 1943, Hall became the first USAAF pilot of African-Amcerican descent to shoot down an enemy plane, a German Focke-Wulf Fw 190.
USAAF
1943
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