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Israel had one other advantage that needs to mentioned - no other choice. If they lost they would have been totally annihilated. The countries surrounding Israel all announced that they would finish what Hitler started. This made the situation totally clear to the military and the entire...

Mike64, I'm afraid that didn't answer the question at all. During the war there were basically two sizes of aircraft to be moved fighters (P-39, 40, 47, 51) sized and medium bomber/large fighter (P-38, B-25, 26, A-20, 26) sized aircraft. Large bombers were not transported that way. And...

My question is that several CVs, CVLs, and CVEs were used at various times as aircraft ferries. Does anybody know how many aircraft they could carry? Norman Friedman's Aircraft Carrier book has a chart with the capacity of planned conversions of liners, but not of the carriers themselves...

The Mustang, Corsair and Hellcat all carried 6 .50 Cals. The Mustang certainly could and did manage to deal with the Fw.190 and I am sure that the Corsair and Hellcat would do at least as well.

As near as I can find the Fokker D.XXI had no capability to carry any bombs. It was underpowered with 4 machineguns