The P-40 was used with ‘success’ against the Japanese in the Australian Pacific war theatre and in North Africa against the Germans, who were at that stage, quite experienced pilots having learned their skills in the Spanish ‘civil war’. P-40 was still a reasonably formidable weapon.
In war, you fight with the force you’ve got, not the one you want. Paraphrased from Donald Henry Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense.
Steve Featherkile said:We can agree on that - and it didn't matter whether they were American or British, German or Japanese.
With the right pilot(s), there is always a way.