Recent content by chris1966

Trainer: AT-6 Cargo: C-54, C-47 Bomber: B-29 Fighter: FW-190, Spitfire, P-51 Medium Bomber: B-25 I don't need anymore; I could win an airwar with these

P-51 F4U Spitfire FW-190 Bf-109 Lancaster B-29 B-17 Ju-88/B-25 (They make my list because of their versatility and I consider them tied) Me-262 (in 1-on-1 combat, you couldn't touch it)

If the B-29 was a better bomber than the B-17 (which IMO it was), why didn't the Americans use it in the ETO? After all, it could fly further, higher, was faster, and had a bigger bomb load. Why not use it in Europe?

I read a book recently by Saburo Sakai (hope I spelled that right) and he describes his kills (64 of them) and most of them were P-39's and 40's. Maybe some of this "myth" was developed on Army aircraft and not Navy aircraft. The F4F had the advantage of speed, firepower, dive, and the...

Hello all. New to the site. Let me say that I agree with everyone who said that strategic bombing was neither a success of a failure. What it did do early in the war, at least, was give the population a lift in morale in the fact that they were at least striking back at the enemy...