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Speaking about P-40s and Me-109s this week I visited a flight museum and fortunetly they had both the P-40 and the Bf-109, good looking warbirds by the way and since the P-40 is airworthy, I was lucky that it was in the museum and not in an airshow.

Today, January 1st 2009 marks the 64th anniversary of Operation Bodenplatte, the last major air offensive by the Luftwaffe aimed to cripple allied air forces stationed in Belgium, the Netherlands and northern France during World War II. Although the massive assault was succesful inflicting heavy...

Several weeks ago I watched the rerun of "The War" on PBS in which Quentin Aanenson thells his experiences as a P-47 pilot and how deeply he was touched by the horrors of war seeing his friends dying one after another and his enemies getting killed under his guns. May the soul of this great...

I didn't know that about the MiG-3 either, from what I understand the aircraft did a poor job during the first stages of the war between Nazi Germany and the USSR because it was forced to fight at low altitude where it was found to be inferior against Germans fighters. As far as the question...

Soren, a 20 mm bullet was not a radar guided missile you know. I have read several P-47 pilots accounts which landed with more than ten 20 mm shots in their thunderbolts.

I have read about the Me 262 with the single 50 MM cannon and also (I'm just relying on my memory) about a special Me 262 with six 30 MM cannons, that would had been some serious fire power.

Congratulation Sam, it was not just a well done job; it was a great sacrifice you and your generation did for our nation and the world.

The Warhawk may be considered a mediocre fighter by the masses but undeniably it has its share of glory serving with the Flying Tigers in China.

As any nation facing the gut-wrenching reality of losing a war, the German aircraft industry became ever more innovative fielding creative and radical aircrafts in the last stages of WWII and the He 162 Salamander was not the exception. However as an unconventional fighter the He 162 did had its...

I would had flown in the ETO from early 1944 until the war's end (if I had survived) as a escort fighter flying either the P-51 or the P-47 (the P-38 was a great fighter but I don't think I could have get used to a two-engine fighter) and the reason a simple one: protect those brave bomber crews...

As everyone here has already pointed out the Hurricane had the edge against the Me 110 but since the doctrine of a heavy fighter proved to be a failure in the Battle of Britain the 110 was however a very succesful aircraft in several other roles.

You only mentione the Frank's advantages over the Mustang; you forgot that in speed and at high altitude the Frank was pig against the Mustang.

I recently bought a book called "Aviation Art of WWII" which is divided in three chapters, "Flying Aces" which features painting of famous aces and their personal stories, "Bombing Missions" which features bold bombing missions in the ETO and PTO and "Carrier War" which features famous naval...

While the Germans tried to bomb New York city, the Japanese on the other hand tried to bomb Oregon and California not with long range bombers but with so type of balloons packed with explosives. I read this some time ago and I do not have any further details but of one thing I'm sure, we were...

From what I have read the RAF was in fact outnumbered by the Luftwaffe during the battle but one of the decisive factor in the outcome of the battle was the change of strategy by the Luftwaffe and that British fighters were well suited for their role of interceptors while German capable escort...