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This doesn't have to be based on anything more than you liking the plane, but what's your favourite WWII plane.

I'd like to kick off with the De Havilland DH. 98 Mosquito

A Twin-engine light bomber, photo-reconnaissance, night fighter, fighter-bomber, anti-shipping strike fighter, transport, long-range escort fighter, pathfinder, intruder, etc.

And with two Merlins and a wooden frame it had speed, about 400mph worth.

As a plane it pretty much had it all including a pretty cool film with the best theme music of any WWII film.

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Mine favourites of WW2 airplanes:
B-29 - Did much about to end the war in the Pacific
Hurricane - Was the top in Battle of Britian and not the Spitfire
ME 262 - First jetfighter in combat
Zero - Surprise attack makes a deadly name to fear allies pilots
Fokker G1 - First twin tailed and engined plane in beginning of war

So this mine list, but minds can change also mine and mine list.
This is what I think today, maybe another day another list.

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P-38 and the Curtis Hawks: Tommahawk, Kittyhawk, Warhawk.
I mean COME ON just LOOK at it!
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I agree with Booms...The P-40 rocked...It was tough, fast, and durable...It did very well in North Africa. I never could figure out why it was "out classed" by the ME-109 or Zero. It had attributes which made it more than a match plus was avaliable in 1940.

Hurricane. We have a book on it somewhere in the house.

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P-47, for survivability (the bottom line in a personal war!)
P-38 for unique styling and varied mission and centered fire-power.

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The P-38 is certainly a very nice looking plane.

The P-47 looks like a brute, all engine...

Is it the P-47 that appears in all the film about the Pacific theatre?

I'm kinda drawn to the Mozzie because nobody wanted it and when they got it they weren't sure what to do with it.

So they got it to do everything...

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F4U-4 Corsair... kicked ass in the air kicked ass on CAS missions...

Non-compliant... Taser Taser Taser

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44hp: China and Africa was the P-40; Pacific was P-38 (P-47N & M late in the war) and Corsair for AAF and Marines, Wildcats and Hellcats for the Navy; Europe was -38, -47 and -51. Generally speaking, of course. Then there were the bombers...

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FW-190D

<img src="http://users.belgacom.net/airimg1/avion1/13169.jpg" border=0>

and:
Ju-87 G-1
<img src="http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/images/ju87g-1.jpg" border=0>

12 shots... 12 T-34 !

<img src="http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/images/ju87g-4.jpg" border=0>

"Notes: In 1943 the first G-1's entered service (these being converted from D-3's). The G-1 was designed for one purpose only, to kill tanks (in a way, along with the Il-2 Stormavik, the ancestor of the A-10 Warthog). To accomplish this mission, the Gustav was equipped with two 37mm Flak 18 cannons. The G-1, and later the G-2 (converted from the long wingspan D-5)proved to be highly successful in "tankbusting", soon earning nicknames like 'Kanonenvogel' (Cannonbird) and 'Panzerknacker' (tank cracker). Most Gustavs were used on the Eastern front but could be found on the Western front as well by the end of the war."


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Edited by - homer32 on Jul 21 2005 10:54 AM

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The Hurricane had 40mms on it too. That plane did just about everything. People remember it's successors, the Typhoon and whatever the other was called. But it kicked butt. eight .303s before anyone else thought of putting more than four guns on a plane.

"Some pup"
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Tempest, then Fury.

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That's right.

"Some pup"
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The sexiest plane ever made:

<img src="http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/WanakaWarbirds/Mustangs/US/LowLevelPass.jpg" border=0>

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Snipers...and targets.</b>
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<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>'Panzerknacker' <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>

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Along came a spider.
P-61 Black Widow

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Now that's funky...

Somebody tell me what it did, apart from looking like it gave somebody (at that time a kid) the idea for an SR-71...

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And here's a picture of the Mozzie,

<img src="http://ww2aircraft.co.uk/Mozzie-3.jpg" border=0>

Not quite as sexy as some of the planes posted, but look at the size of those twin Merlins. And on a wooden plane.

Apparantly they used to pull loops straight off the airfield they had so much power.

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P-61 was a dedicated night fighter that came out towards the end of WWII, had a primative but real honest to goodness air to air RADAR in the nose.

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I think the P-39 Aircobra had the best lines of the war.
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Edited by - Hawg166 on Jul 23 2005 6:29 PM

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Favorite WWII bird has to be the P-38. Firepower at the nose was the GAU-8 of the time.

Maj. Bong sure made good use of that firepower THAT'S for sure.

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At leaste one version had the 37mm, 2 20mm, and 2 50cal ! A "party mix" of probly unparralelled proportions and no "timing gear" to get in the way of any of it.

A 9mm MAY expand, but a 45 will NEVER shrink!

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So how did they come up with that configuration?

Was it a case of...

"What have we got lying about the shop?"

"Lots of big guns."

"OK lets fit them all"

"Sounds like a plan"

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