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Ref #93, Yes, what an amazing airplane. A few thousand ME-262's could have destroyed our stategic bombing plan. Imagine if Hitler had held his cards for a few years. I think we still would have won, but he could have made it a lot more difficult, if he had not been an insane megalomaniac, trying to take everything right now, instead of biding his time. Same reason we lost Nam, the politicians wouldn't let the generals run the war.

Mustang. Lightning. Thunderbolt. Those names still give me chills. But I've come to a new favorite...the F4F4 Wildcat. Underpowered and overgunned, they were the only capable combat aircraft our guys had on Guadalcanal from August-October of 1942. Men like Joe Foss, Joe Bauer, Bob Smith, Jeff DeBlanc, Marion Carl and dozens of others flew those "inferior" machines into battle outnumbered almost every day, and they clawed victory from the sky with those stubby Grumman products. (With a little help from Mr. Browning, of course ;)