Forget the Spitfire, P-51, Fw 190, Me 262 or any other pretender to the crown. We explain This Obscure Plane Was The Greatest Fighter Aircraft of World War II. This is not as crazy as it first sounds.
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Sources / Attribution:
Images:
1 ) Spitfire Image one – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SpiIX306.jpg
2) Bf 109 Crash - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bf109E_crash.jpg
3) Spitfire Image 2 (damaged) -https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spitfire_ZX1.jpeg
4) Bf 109 Image 2 – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messerschmitt_Bf_109_G-2_(SA-kuva_150329).jpg
5) Airacobra image –
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C-878_-_Maintenance_crew_repair_a_P-39_on_an_airfield_in_the_Aleutian_Islands,_Alaska._(52286672997).jpg
6) Soviet winter / tank –
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soviet_BT-5_tank_at_winter_war.jpg
7) Do335 – Public Domain
8) B-17 Flying Fortress – USAAF
9) Morale booster segment
Keep them flying poster - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WAAAF_Recruiting_Poster.JPG
Spitfire factory poster –
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spitfire-1943-LC-8.jpg
gun poster Malaya – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malayan_Emergency_Bren_Gun.jpg
Police question civ (Malaya) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Police_in_Malayan_Emergency.jpg
Troops river crossing - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Malayan_Emergency_1948-1960_MAL35.jpg
Iron Cross flag- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Germany_(1935%E2%80%931945,_Iron_Cross).svg