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IIRC, 18 April, 1943, was the date that Yamamoto met his demise, just one year after the Doolittle raid.

Hi Taly01, thank you for this, I'm not trying to promote the 'Pete' as a fantastic plane, but determine what chances of survival it had...

The Typhoon WAS pretty bad. I think Clostermann mentioned it in his book, about a pilot who went down the Channel and it took him all...

I confess I hadn't even thought about the Corsair, in any of it's variants. it would be a better choice than the T-bolt or the Tempest...

I like your thoughts.As you said, extreme range isn't necessary. Very high altitude probably not that important-the enemy didn't have a...

I think, due to having to use it for ground attack, and as an interceptor, I'd have to go with either the P-47 or Tempest. The range of...

There's valid arguments in all the replies which leads us to only one conclusion as to which plane turned the tide of WW2, all of them.

The Defiant comes to mind. Great engine, of course, but that didn't make up for the rest of it.,, Ooops, single seat, never...

Chiang Kai-Shek used the THREAT of pulling out of the war to get those supplies, That was his whole thing, he never wanted to fight the...

Disrupting the materiel coming over the Hump would make it a lot harder to keep the Chinese in the war, the Japanese DID raid some of...

China comes to mind, if they get China out of the war, that frees up millions of men to fight in the island war. That was the reason...

Does any of this really matter now? We all know it was a solid workhorse aircraft that soldiered on throughout the war, doing a...

I'd stick to the ones they used, Mustangs and Spitfires, no need to reinvent the wheel.

For decades there was conventional wisdom that the A6M was based on the Hughes H-1 racer. It wasn't true but you know... the thing...

Please go and see for yourself and see what you think however before you jump there and start reading you might want to prepare yourself...