I seem to recall the 264sqn hold the record for kills in 1 day.Think it was 35.not bad for for a turret fighter.Like u say though it didn't last long.If I have to choose a proper day time fighter in Bob it would be the Hurricane.There was more of them in the battle than spitfires and their kill...
The story I got is that it was 1 lone Heinkel bomber at night that accidentally dropped his bombs on London instead of the docks.Churchill then decided to bomb Berlin in revenge and so the bombing of all cities started.If my facts are correct then the outcome of the entire war was decided by 1...
Spam vote!! Me !! Never would.Rebel there r plenty in the gallery.Got mine there .And your all bloody nasty people saying things like that about my Defiants.They were very good night-fighters , terrible day time fighters and good target tugs.( hated saying that last part).
Thats not a very nice way to keep members is it! I was under the impression that all here are aircraft fanatics and as such would be willing to help if possible.
Didnt Hans Ulrich Rudel fly a Stuka for years on the Eastern front and must have knocked out thousands of tanks in his career.Think he wrote a book on his life as a pilot during the war.Recon the Stuka or the IL2 must be the best anti-tank planes of the war, or any war for that matter.