My personal fav WWII plane was the F-4U Corsair. Boyenton and the Black Sheep gave Zeros hell with those beauties!
They were all beautiful, even the Wildcat and P-40. When I was a kid, I used to put together models of just about all of them.
I remember a book by Eric Hartmann in which he mentioned that the Russian Yak fighters toward the end of the war would perform with anything including the P-51.