[FlyVet]

That may be true, for prop-driven planes, I don't know. I heard somewhere that fighter pilots actually "tipped over" V-1 buzz bombs by putting their wingtip under its wingtip, and rolling. Them boys must have had some big Kahoonies to do such a thing. Fastest planes of that war? Probably the German Komet, or the Japanese Baka. Rocket planes.

[PsyOp]

I was, of course, speaking of the lighting's speed in relation to other prop aircraft. I think the ME-262 take the award for sustained speed. The Komet wasn't a a true airplane - but rather a liquid-fueld rocket with wings that shot itself skyward at tremendous speed for (usually) one pass through the target bomber formation and then glided (barely) to a barely controlled landing once its fuel burned out. The Komet, as I recall, killed more German pilots than allied.

[PsyOp]

ME-262

Could have change the outcome of the war had in not been shelved back at the start of the war, and then later delayed because Hitler wanted it turned into a "jet dive-bomber" with which to attack London.

[PsyOp]

Here's another pic for you.

P-38 "Lightning." Nicknamed the "Fork-Tailed Devil" by Germans in the air and on the ground. The concentration of four .50's and a 20mm in the nose made it deadly whether it was dog-fighting or strafing.