wmaxt
Staff Sergeant
RG_Lunatic said:wmaxt said:I the web page (p-38(C.C.Jorden...)) mJorden states that in various conversations/statements with aces on both sides that the P-51 P-47s were disliked but the P-38s were "The most hated and feared aircraft"
We had a Japanese member of the Fighter Ace community who posted that his father would pray before each sortie that he would not encounter Corsairs. I think it sorta mattered where and when they were stationed as to which planes were most feared/respected. And this probably had as much to do with the experiance level of the enemy pilots as the planes they flew by 1944.
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Lunatic
True enough, you were never concerned about the aircraft you never encountered. I read somewhare that one of the things the Japanese hated about the P-38 was that with it's range they never knew when or where they would show up.