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    Best naval fighter II

    I was under the impression that that is a legend.
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    Best naval fighter II

    Full Shinden production was ordered a few days before Hiroshima was hit, so they were just tooling up when the surrender came down.
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    Best naval fighter II

    Most effect: F6F Hellcat. Don't argue, it's true. Even the R.N.F.A.A. bought them in spades. The F8F Bearcat was the better plane, though. I also think that the Goodyear F2G-2 Super Corsair was pretty cool.
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    What was the One Thing that won WWII?

    To think that any one thing won the war is ignorant. No one plane, gun, tank, ship, riveter, prime minister, president, G.I., Tommy, or Kilt-wearing highlander could have won the war alone. The Lancs could not have won the war alone, nor could our massive industrial capacity. Many hundreds...
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    p51 vs p47

    Ah, yes, longer range. I belive that the N did see service escorting B-29's during some of the final runs, it had a range of 2350 miles with tanks, if I'm not mistaken.
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    Me-262

    I know that. They needed bombers early on, to hammer at britain's industrial capacity, rather than just fling buzz bombs around. Fighters and tactical bombers are largely defense, and defense does not win wars.
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    Ugliest Plane of WW2?

    Nonsense, I think it's a very elegant design.
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    Mossie nf vs He 219 nf

    That's true, Ernst Heinkel built it out of his own pocket. I think it could have been a better night figher, if it had been given official backing, and been allowed to prove itself.
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    Me-262

    One fast plane does not a superior air force make. What the Germans needed was bombers. Big, strategic bombers. It was the Fortresses, Lancs, and Liberators that did them in, crippled their production capacity. The He. 219 was a good start, but that silly requirement that it be usable as...
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    p51 vs p47

    I prefer the P-47. The M model was faster than most mustangs, the N model had a ridiculous range, and, 8 Browning .50's is better than six. I don't know nearly as much as the rest of you, but it could almost certainly dive faster, and was probably tougher to kill and more rugged. The P-51 has...
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    Ugliest Plane of WW2?

    The Hs. 129 was the worst. Worse than the Il-2.
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    Wich was the worst nation in the war?

    Which would be correct. The Germans were hard-hit by the treaty of versailles, and, some how I doubt that the Nazi party would have even been taken seriously if everyone was a bit more charitable at the end of the Great War. The fly in the ointment was the fact that this group you mentioned...
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    P-38 or Mosquito?

    I feel a little silly saying this. I belive the Mossie and the Lightning are so closely matched is is incredible. I think the biggest difference was the amount of interior space, which the Mossie obviously wins. But I think that the Lighning didn't do so well in the ETO because of it's...
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