:thumbs up:Originally posted by Megile:
At the end of the day, it could turn circles round the Messer and Focke till they fell out of the sky from fuel shortage.
It's easy to make a dogfighter... it's pretty dam hard to make that dogfighter fly 8 hours.
The Mustang was America's great achievment of ww2, be sure.
If you had to make a list of events/things that contributed to ending WWII, the P51 would be way, way down the list.
The Eastern Front accounted for at least 75% of German military deaths and prisoners. The nuclear bomb finished the Pacific conflict. The P51's contribution is not even 1%.
Had the P51 not existed, the allies would still have won.
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200% be sure!!!101!!
And the evidence is everywhere:
While still in prototype stage it ended the ww1 with a PK on the Red Baron:
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It won the Battle of Britain:
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Won the African campainn!!!!
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Beat the nazis back at Stalingrad!!!111!
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At Iwo Jima it shot all the japanese inside the Mount Suribachi using the mighty API-API-API-API formula !101!!!
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Ended the war in Europe !!!101!!
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And are still doing Homeland Security today:
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Originally posted by Jaws2002:
200% be sure!!!101!!
And the evidence is everywhere:
While still in prototype stage it ended the ww1 with a PK on the Red Baron:
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It won the Battle of Britain:
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Won the African campainn!!!!
![]()
Beat the nazis back at Stalingrad!!!111!
![]()
At Iwo Jima it shot all the japanese inside the Mount Suribachi using the mighty API-API-API-API formula !101!!!
![]()
Ended the war in Europe !!!101!!
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And are still doing Homeland Security today:
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Be sure!!!
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