The P-40 kuti kushaya miviri-nokukurumidza supercharger akaita kuti yakaderera kuna Luftwaffe varwi akadai Messerschmitt Bf 109 kana Focke-Wulf Fw 190 mukurwisana mukuru kukwirira uye zvakanga kashoma kushandiswa kushanda Northwest Europe
. Zvisinei, pakati 1941 uye 1944, ari P-40 akaita basa rinokosha pamwe Allied mhepo mauto matatu makuru theaters: North Africa, Southwest Pacific, uye China. Yaivawo nebasa rinokosha kuMiddle East, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Alaska neItaly. The P-40 kwakaita chokupika panguva dzakakwirira akanga asina kukosha mune theaters iwayo, apo akashanda somunhu mhepo kukwirira murwi, bhomba rwokufambisa uye murwi-bhomba. Kunyange zvazvo akawana mukurumbira pashure pehondo sezvo mediocre magadzirirwo, akakodzera chete pedyo mhepo rutsigiro, zvakawanda tsvakurudzo ichangopfuura kusanganisira kuongorora zvinyorwa nomumwe Allied squadrons kunoratidza kuti ichi chakanga chisiri nyaya: ari P-40 akaita zvinoshamisa zvakanaka somunhu mhepo kukurira murwi, dzimwe nguva kutambura nokurasikirwa kukuru, asiwo kukonzera mutero zvikuru inorema pamusoro ndege muvengi. Zvichibva pakukunda munguva yehondo, vatyairi vengarava vanopfuura 200 veAllied vanobva kuUK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, US neSoviet Union vakava vatyairi veP-40. Idzi dzakabatanidza dzinenge 20 dzokurwa kaviri, zvikurukuru pamusoro peNorth Africa, China, Burma neIndia, South West Pacific neEastern Europe. The P-40 akapa mamwe zvakanakira yakaderera mutengo uye mukurumari, izvo akaramba ari kugadzirwa somunhu pasi-kurwisa ndege refu pashure akanga obsolescent somunhu murwi.