I recollect a war memoir by an Australian ace who flew P-40s. He thought they were wonderful. He flew naturally aspirated models, as he refers to being restricted to low altitudes.
Morning Iris7.
The P-40 Kittyhawk (or Warhawk, in US service) was the fighter used in the greatest numbers by the RAAF in World War 2, and a P-40N was the last RAAF aircraft lost in operations during that war. The RAAF's WW2 fighter aces in most cases began their careers in P-40s.
In all 848 P-40E, P-40K, P-40M, and P-40N types served in the RAAF, in the Western Desert, Australia, New Guinea, Rabaul, the Netherlands East Indies, and in the island hops through Goodenough, Noemfoor and Morotai.
With the war's end, the P-40 was no longer required, being superseded by more modern types. Some of those delivered from late 1944 never saw service and were scrapped from storage. Others found their way to bombing ranges as practice targets.
It continues to amaze be how America may not have built the fastest or most manueverable aircraft during the war, but we built planes that could get "shot up like hell" and still bring the pilot/crews home.
I just found this link Interview with Brig. Gen. Robert Scott about his life and how he got into flying, and going to China, and after. There's a total of 5 pages of the interview.