The Boeing P-26 fighter of the 1930s & '40s was nicknamed this, like a classroom weapon
The airplane was named the Peashooter for its gun blast tubes, but 
not for... [DOC] [TLE] P-40 and Zero - CHUCKHAWKS.COM [PAR] Their creation was the Type 00 or Zero fighter (first code named Ben, then ... 
Across the Pacific Ocean the P-40's birth was playing out much differently.