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Originally Posted by GoHuskies
Perhaps you can answer a question Nit?
I've heard (from war buffs) that in WWII the US military was a joke and our planes were no match for any other European or Japanese power. According to these select 21-23 year old (experts) Germany and Japan had the best planes just bad commanders. The US never had any good aircraft except for something with a P-Lightning? and a Mustang?
Are they full of biases crap or did we really just win WWII of our greater industrial capacity to win by attrition?
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I would say so. If you look at the combat record of American pilots vs. both the Germans and the Japanese, we reamed they royally. Besides the Mustang and Lightning, there were the P47 Thunderbolt and F6F Hellcat and F4U Corsair , they all were highly feared and respected by their respective opponents.
Kill ratios:
P51 Mustang 19:1 [Overall]
P47 Thunderbolt 8:1 [Overall]
P38 Lightning 11:1 [Pacific]
F6F Hellcat 19:1 [Pacific]
F4U Corsair 11:1 [Pacific]