superb production. Matching commentators to countries of origin is brilliant. Thanks

I like it when the planes being described is done so by a narrator coming from the same country as the plane.

Kudos & a 'Like' for not ignoring the aircraft of nations that were not US, British, German or Japanese; not that those aircraft weren't pivotal in their theaters. I can't remember a presentation that even mentioned Russian & Italian aircraft. Love the historical (actual) video footage as well. excellent job on this video. TY.

In the 1990s and into the early 2000s,these programs made the history channel very enjoyable to watch .

Watched this series when it premiered, still love it!

The P-51 Mustang was the double edged sword that helped lead to the defeat of Nazi Germany. With its long rang, high speed, high altitude, heavy armament, visibility and agility it allowed the bombing campaign to level Berlin to obliteration. It also served in damaging ground attacks strafing targets on its return to England. Great documentary. Thanks for the upload.

It is a fact that information on WW2 propeller aircraft engine technology remains classified to this day! I discovered this when installing a car engine, a Chevrolet 4.3 ltr V6 into a light aircraft. My research into cooling systems for internal combustion engines in aircraft revealed that much was unavailable due to this!

Yes jets are super cool! But I love these old prop plane fighters!

...it defies my logical thinking....a bit of a visionary (I've been told by others not just my self-talk)...Just blows my mind every time I see ground crew..."hand cranking"...to start an enormous plane engine...can't imagine what the exploded view of that gear box looks like...Thank you for posting...A.C.Feuerhelm

My father’s plane is hanging in the museum in Naval Air Station Pensacola

The best museum for WW2 aircraft in the UK is the RAF Museum at Hendon in North London. They have a formidable array of warbirds. Spitfires, Hurricanes, a P-51, a couple of 109s, a P-40, a Lancaster, a B-17G. But the real beauty is its extensive collection of rarities, especially the German ones. They have a Stuka (one of only 2 left on earth I believe), a Heinkel 111, a He162 Salamander, an ME-110 and a two-seat FW-190. They’ve got a sweet Beaufighter and P-47 as well. They also have wrecked Halifax they pulled from a fjord in the 1970s as well as loads of Cold War era jets and a few modern ones. F4s, Harriers, Tornados. If that’s not enough they have a dedicated WW1 hangar. You could spend all day there. My favourite museum. Free entry (with option to donate) like all London museums as well, so it’s open to everyone. I really recommend it.

An excellent look back at some of the iconic and historic aircraft of WWII, it was nice to see some of the lesser known aircraft that didn’t get the plaudits during or after hostilities ceased. I have learnt a few things I was unaware of, like the high altitude Spitfire having a pressurised cockpit, not something I associated with the fighters of the time, or the Spitfire in its own right. My only disagreement with the narration is that that the ME262 was “easily the best fighter of the war” the fastest? Yes, but it was not really employed as a fighter, once again Hitler misemployed it, preferring to use it as a bomber and air superiority interceptor, if the Luftwaffe had been allowed to use it as a fighter then it could have extended the war but never won the war, the RAF would have had to put the Meteor into frontline service and that could have negated the ME262, it also had many drawbacks technically, like the engines only lasting for a very short in service period, I believe as little as 15 hrs, so for me it will never be the best fighter of the War. To be the best is not merely one thing, it is a whole plethora of individual things combining to produce a complete package, Speed, durability, agility, performance around various flight envelopes, armament, range, etc etc etc. Thanks for sharing this interesting and informative film 🎥😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Lose sight lose fight. Know your gun systems as well as your air frame capabilities. Your mechanics, armorers, are part of your lifeline. Learn of your enemy’s crafts strengths and weaknesses. Come out of sun if possible. Know your fuel consumption and return point well. Try to maintain numbers superiority in fights, develop camaraderie with squadron mates, don’t go it alone. Don’t dwell on kill, immediately move to next targets. Pre plan raids and tactics to high degree but be ready if plans go by wayside. Trigger happy ground based anti aircraft crews must be weeded out by command as they are worse than enemies.

Listening to the production numbers makes me wonder why these aircraft are now so rare? Mosquitoes built in Canada, Australia and the UK, 16,000 I think it said, yet existing examples are hardly to be found. Same with the others. The Yak-3 looked to be one fantastic aircraft and I think the number it says built was over 12 thousand, yet where are they? They would make one heck of a great warbird for private use yet I've never seen one in real life. I know most aircraft were scrapped and even dumped in the ocean but still, with tens of thousands of these planes built by the end of the war, it seems so unlikely that they've all but disappeared. Yet they seem to have done so, somehow. Anyway . . . this is one of the best documentaries I've seen with so much original footage. Really a treat.

Gotta watch this video at least once every two to three years.

During the Typhoon segment, with the 'after he invasion of Europe' comment, we are viewing not Typhoons, but Tempests.

My grandmother was shot down over Darwin Australia, he was flying a Australian built wirraway (brewester buffalo ) to Americans

Hell Cat loved the little buggers!

I think the Japanese referred to the Corsair as the "whistling death". This was due to the signature properller sound created by the tips of the propeller breaking the sound barrier.

Ironic but true, the P - 51 Mustang, that gave Allied Bombers Fighter cover all the way to Berlin and back was designed by a German Engineer who had to emigrate to the US due to a lack of opportunities in the Fatherland before Hitler came to power. The name of that Engineer at North American Aircraft ( in LA ) who no one now remembers ( perhaps on purpose ) was Edgar Schmued. He had been educated at Gottingen U. ( then the best in the world for Aeronautical Engr. ) and applied his education there to the design of the Laminar flow wing that gave the Mustang its range.

The shark's mouth p40s actually began with British units in Africa. The flying tigers loved it when they saw it on newsreels, and adopted it.

Brief lip service was given to the Curtiss Hawk although its P-36 designation was not mentioned. Produced in three models, the P-36A used by the French Air Force in 1939 against Germany produced several aces before some of the planes were flown to England for use there and elsewhere. Initially powered by a 950hp radial engine, the B model engine was uprated to 1050hp, and the final 30 C models were fitted with a 1200hp radial which gave the fighter a 330mph top speed. The P-36 Hawk line was replaced by the P-40 Tomahawk. Although the Grumman F4F Wildcat has been credited with the first air kill by an American made fighter in WWII, actually French P-36 Hawks hold that honor and later British Hawks shot down a German FW110 over the Scalpa Flow strait before the F4F entered the war. Captured French P-36 Hawks were sold by the Germans to their Danish allies and were used effectively against Soviet aircraft in the early stages of the war.

Before the war the 'Air Ministry' wasn't interested in funding the Spitfire or the Mossie or the Merlin engine or the metallurgy to develop the special alloys needed for high output supercharged aero engines and a great deal more, the money for so many of those war winning projects was raised privately, those stupid bastards who were only in the position because of who they knew not what they knew nearly cost us the war, they were worse than 5th columnists. Churchill himself said that the most difficult thing he had to do was getting those upper class nobs out of the positions of power and getting people in who knew what they were doing back in, the nobs took back the positions immediately after the war ended of course often deliberately destroying the reputations of their immediate predecessor and claiming the glory for themselves, those upper class nobs were rotten bastards to a man

Really well-done documentary. Excellent photography.

Once the Typhoon was dialed in it was a amazing aircraft, such a radically designed engine. I read it did suffer from engine fires and that pilots were required to wear oxygen masks before they started the engine as the carbon monoxide fumes were so strong in the cockpit, it would incapacitate the pilot..

For me the best aircraft of the lot ,, was the Mosquito built by the brits ,Aussies, and Canadians .This was a genuine multi purpose aircraft, with the ability to do any role superbly. s

I believe that the CORSAIRs Japanese nickname was "Whistling Death" not whispering death as stated in the show.

GREAT SERIES ON WORLD WAR ll AIRCRAFT ! INTELLIGENT AND FACTUAL VIEWING ! !

It's nice to see all these beautiful birds once and again. I don't really care about inaccuracies

When they said that the Zero was meant to be doing the shooting and not to be shot at that's the truth. Other pilots have said that the Zero was a ticking time bomb, ready to be lit up if you could fire on it. It had no armor around the cockpit to support the pilot and oil control systems. That's why it was so light. I guess the Japanese thought they could easily replace combat flyers if they got shot down. They found out too late when they ran out of qualified pilots. Also, the radial engines seemed to rule with A/C. Wonder why Mazda was the only one to introduce them in cars?

The "P-39 Airacobra" shown at 21:32 was usually referred to as the P-63 Kingcobra since that's what it is. Come on neighbor, look at the vertical stabilizer. No mistaking that. :)

Yes the Mk XVI Spitfire with the Griffin Engine did have enough speed to be able to down the V1 "Doodlebug" Flying Bombs, only just however. The task was very quickly assigned to the Typhoons with their massive engines which by that time had finally begun to iron out its initial teething problems. It was the fastest British fighter made, propeller fighter anyway. Squadrons of Typhoons were rotated back from France where they had been working in the Ground Support role specifically to counter the V1s. It has always been a popular myth that the first British Fighter Jet, the Meteor, was the main driving force behind protecting London, and other English cities from the V1 threat. That was never the case. In a system that rearranged AntiAircraft Ground defenses forming belts along the coastline in the areas the V1s approached and behind them the Fighter aircraft would then operate in a rough partnership. The antiaircraft guns, with many being radar controlled by this time in the War as well as using the new proximity fuses for the shells most of the V1s shot down were by the Guns of the AA batteries--many of those still operated by the Home Guard Units too. The fighters had great success too with Typhoons shooting the most by fighters with Spitfires comming in a distant second. The Gloster Meteor wasnt credited with a single kill of anything. If you think about it in terms of those times it makes perfect sense even if its hard for us now to understand. At that time, although it was clear the allies would be victorious it was far less clear as to when, and with the complete suprise and shock of the Battle of the Bulge who knew what the Germans capable of. So the Meteors were hoarded and their numbers increased in case they were really needed to counter the Me262 or other German Nasty suprise. Also the Meteors were cutting edge fighters with cutting edge price tags at a time when England was begining to really pay attention to issues of the economy, and with dread and horror at the War Bills that would soon be due at Wars end. England was coming very close to Bankruptcy at this point. So the loss of a cutting edge fighter that would comprise core the post war RAF fighters wouldnt be casually dismissed as it would have been a year or so earlier. In other words risking a relativily inexpensive Typhoon that would be scrapped as soon as the war was over would be an acceptable risk. Make no mistake, shooting these V1s down was an extremely risky dangerous business. They had to be engaged at maximum range or as maximum as possible, where ots far more difficult to hit (The Polish Air Force pilots that came to fly for England in the Battle of Britian scored far more kills, had far better results than the British pilots did. Thats because the polish air force trained, and calibrated their guns to converge, far closer than British pilots at the begining. With experiance they learned to engage at ranges of 100 yards or so but before that their kill rates were low. Lesson being its extremely difficult to get hits at max range). Problem is though the difference between max range and min range is only a scant few seconds with their closeing speeds. Many pilots were killed when they were too close when they finally hit the bombs and the huge weight of explosive would kill them as well. It was a tough business, esp when thepilots knew if they screwed up and let it get through that innocent civillians and maybe even pregnant women and children would almost certainally die as a result. In any case the rareprecious and expensive citting edge jets were too valuable to risk when so many other planes were around that can do the job with equal sucess, maybe even better as the much cleaner jets were much harder to slow than the prop aircraft that had plenty of drag so slowed on demand just throttling back.

The planes of WW2 aren't just planes,they're like a machine gun wrapped around the pilot,an extension of his fighting,shooting,and flying capabilities,gifts,and expertise! In a more purer form,unlike today,whereas a pilot of today who must basically be a computer whiz!

From JANE'S POCKET BOOK OF MAJOR COMBAT AIRCRAFT c1976. The Mustiang was still used for counter insurghcny under the name of "Cavalier"

Hawker Hurricane started work with a fixed wooden properly and changed to a metal Changable prop that started with take off pitch and at speed, changed to performance pitch. That was it. All you got. You were stuck in third gear until your crew chief climbed up with a bar and flipped back to take off pitch. Later the constant pitch propellers were installed by its makers against the wishes of the top brass. The flyability changed so much they needed thousands more and so paid. The same maker said they don't want my wooden bomber, but they will.

The P-38 was available long before 1944, had greater range, higher altitude, and greater firepower. Early in the war, the A6M Zero was a very capable fighter but America caught up and that ended the success of the Zero.

28:16 , no the Corsair was known to the Japanese as "Whistling Death", the Bristol Beaufighter was known as "Whispering Death".

I love these guys!

This series is great, ive NEVER seen one with an Italian describing their own air force, and enthusiastically, the German pilots that survived and allowed interviews were always cagy and apologetic in their sycophantic way about Spitfires being the best etc.

a GREAT Post...thank you!!

Whys it that whenever theres a ww2 fighter plane documentary, they show all of everyone's planes except only the a6m zero for Japan? They had lots aswell, the ki43 was probably as good as the zero although not the first lot that came out, also the n1k2. Plus numerous others....

Early in the war the P-40 was competitive with the B.O.B. 109 models. The P-40 would easily dive as well, had better guns than the Spits and Hurricanes. The P-40 would out turn the 109, had better range, armor, and rugged construction. None of the early Spits, Hurricanes, or 109s were high altitude machines. Their effective COMBAT altitude was no better than the P-40's.

The spitfire, the Me 109 and the P-51 mustang were all classic fighter planes that had their individual advantages and disadvantages and you can't really say which one was best. The P-51 was the best looking and the merlin rolls royce had the best sound...their places in history is secure.

Thank you for posting this. One minor point, was the Me 109 superior to the Spitfire? There is a lot of hogwash on the net on the subject. There is a simple test. German pilots famously asked for Spitfires. No Spit pilot ever wanted a 109 except as a target. That said both were remarkable and of the very very few designs that were front line from the first days to the last of WW2. In the very last action between a 109 and a Spitfire the 109 won. It was flown by the IDF.

Great Footage!!!

At the National History Museum in Washington, there is a mural of a ME109 attacking a USA bomber. Not sure what model the bomber was, but happened to be standing next to the pilot of it one day when he explained "look at the attack, they are inverted. They could do that due to the fuel injection. Our planes could not."

P-47s are my favorite. Bugged me when the one with the checkered Cowl sounded like a P-40. Note: although the Mustang has the looks, of the top 10 Aces in the ETO, most were in the Jug. If you've ever heard a Thunderbolt fly over with the Throttle opened 75% or so, It's in one word "Macho!" Makes V-12s sound kinda anemic.

During WWII all the nations involved had some fantastic aircraft, but none of them would have been any use without pilots to fly them and engineers to maintain them, this video is interesting and informative, but mentions of the crews that manned these aircraft are few and far between, a minor point, but true. Thanks for sharing. Thumbs up 👍. Thanks. My two favourite fighters of WWII, the P-38 Lightning, small (comparatively, with other fighters) but sleek and fast, and the Mosquito (she carried out many roles, including fighter bomber) again, sleek, very fast, and effective. There are many others I admire, but those two were/are the best WWII fighters. When the narration said that the ME-262 was easily the best fighter of WWII I nearly fell out of bed, a bit of an unfair comparison, the only two jet fighters of the war came into service very late in conflict and would easily have outstripped propeller driven aircraft, as would the Meteor, so comparing them to the prop driven fighters is wrong, perhaps the best jet aircraft, but still an unfair comparison.

19:56 Wow that landing gear is fast!

The secret of the bf109 is that four could be produced for every Spitfire. I cannot discover what the details truly are. The idea of multiple subassemblies as with Victory Ships. It might mean that most parts were so elegantly designed they were quicker to make. I feel there are still things to explain.

Did Willie m. Prompt Typhie when he said, Two engines in a single seat fighter is un productive or something like that.👍🏼

The P-39 was employed as a fighter, not primarily in ground attack, by the Russians. Eastern front air action was at mid to low altitudes.

as a military veteran, here is were, whether you like it or not, America and its logistics or intelligence overcome and defeat, enemies, who, believe, America and its allies, cannot be defeated, loose the war

saeta, from the Latin word " sagita" it means arrow not lightning.

The P-40's decoration isn't a shark's mouth. It is a tiger's mouth. You know, Gen. Chennault (September 6, 1893 - July 27, 1958) and the Flying Tigers in China?

43:30 these are Tempests of course, not Typhoons

11:47 looks like a german Kubelwagen between those Spits...

Oh dear, the p39 was never used as a ground attack platform by the Soviets, its a myth.

I Always Wonder What a P-38 Lightning Would be Like with Merlin Engines?

The Spitfires wings were clipped to increase roll rate. Clipping the wings would actually hurt high altitude performance.

P-39 mentioned, what do they show, a P-63 King Cobra.

All those aircraft back in the 1930s to the 1940s without the pilots and the skills but the pilots had the reflexes the ability to look around while you're in combat that's what makes the aircraft work as long as you're giving a good tool you get good results with the pilot is the main man that is actually making that aircraft do what it was made to do what's give credit to work Reddit belong to the pilot also

getting pretty bad there is no #13 video online here. I had to use a torrent to find that video and download it to complete the listing. Because of some dumb copy right complaint. I got some biking films uploaded to U-Tube and I received a complaint of one of my raw uploaded files , it was the road noise from the tires on the road that they used a algorithm on the upload that was faulty. the film was left alone after I told them you can't copyright road noise , LOL.

Gas tanks on the Zero were not sealed. Nice!

The first shots of what you called a P-39 was actually a P-63. Someone needs to do their homework!

The Germans called the p-38 lightning "Der Gabelschwanz Teufel." The forked tail devil.

From 43:29 the Tempest 2 is shown, the Typhoon 1B is shown from 43:01 to 43:28

The ME262 had swept wings for the purpose of correcting the center of lift and not for aerodynamic considerations.

When women were tasked with producing and working on the assembly lines they were all thinking that they were building this for their husband. That their husbands were going to be the ones using these things they were building and if one thing was wrong that could kill their husband up in the air. So these women, our amazing american women, built these planes with love and made sure they worked as best as humanly possible. You have no idea how much that actually impacted the war. In ways, you can't imagine.

Little known fact, the Italian fighters came equipped with white flags.

I heard the wrists of Spitfire pilots would rub on the cockpit sides. It looks like the Spitfires were pretty narrow.

And to think there are a very few ME 109 war era flying anymore ..I believe one only...what a shame for history's sake

FW 190 beautiful 😊

Gruman=the iron works. FW190=the butcher bird. Both of the US;'s top aces flew the P38; it didn't like the cold of Europe but was superb in the Pacific.

Even though there were eight guns on the early British fighters that still didn't change the fact that they were the British .303 Standard Infantry Rifle Cartridge and the overall firepower was very enemic. That's was especially true considering that the British pilots were taught and trained to open fire at the maximum range meaning the projectile had only a small fraction of its kinetic energy by the time it hit its target so it's destructive potential was small. When the polish pilots started flying during the battle of Britain their success of kill rates were far better than those of the British pilots because the polish pilots were trained to open fire at point blank ranges. This maximized kinetic energy and damage to the germans. But there is no doubt at all that the RAF would have had a much larger kill rate of they hadn't had the Browning company chamber the machine guns to the .303 from the much larger .50 caliber that was standard on all American fighters. The British had It rechambered for the .303 because they had millions of surplus .303 ammunition left over from world war one and even then saving money was a big concern for them whenever and wherever they could. But in this particular case it cost British lives until they started mounting the 20 mm cannons on their fighters, much more destructive that the fifty even but far slower rates of fire so in balance the fifty and the twenty mm cannon had roughly equal potential.

Actually Whispering Death was Michael Holding, da West Indian man!

RAF No. 112 GA, was the first Allied unit to use the Sharks mouth.

it is a terrible thing to say considering all the suffering and death involved in ww2 bu that war created so many inovations in technology

Again and again that same wrong information about the Hellcat being designed to counter the Zero. The prototype first flew in June of 1942. How could Grumman have designed a fighter and built it that fast? It was, of course, already being worked on before the war even began. Some changes were made when reports of the Zero's performance were made available, but the plane was not designed because of the A6M. It was designed because, even before the U.S. entered war, the Navy realized that it needed a replacement for the Wildcat.

I have seen veteran pilots of the war who have said the Meteor had nothing to do with downing the V1's. They said it was all propaganda and the Spits and Typhoons and AA did all the work.

Yes the corsair was the whistling death. No whispering.

The sharks teeth for the Flying tigers, did not start with the Americans, copied from the British. And probably German before that!

I thought that the Hawker Tempest was the fastest Piston Engine fighter of WW11 not the FW 190 D.

And the fw190 doro wasnt the fs fastest of the war at 417mph until jets. The dehavilind mosquito was faster and some versions of it were fighters

The hand starting crank on some fighters, how did it work? Did it wind up a spring? Always wondered. Nobody talks about it.

Even though the Hurricane had eight Browning Machine Guns and in fact was the first eight gunned fighter in the world, the sheer number wasn't as impressive in practice as it might have sounded. That was because of the stubborn British insistence on sticking with the .303 cal standard infantry rifle cartridge. Even air Marshall Haris couldn't understand why they never upgraded to the far heavier .50 cal like the Americans used on their bombers and fighters. Whatever the reason, it is said at the beginning of the war the English were worried about the supply of ammo if they used the American .50s. They had plenty of .303 ammunition left over from the first world war as the Lee Enfield .303 was the standard infantry rifle then too so they had millions of rounds still in storage. However they didn't have much of the .50 cal ammunition in comparison as it wasn't a English standard at that time. Therefore they would have to rely on shipments of the ammo arriving safely from across the u boat infested Atlantic ocean crossing and in the early days of the war the u boats were proving extremely effective, so much so that Winston Churchill commented that there was only one thing that truly frightened him during the war and that was the u boat threat. And justifiably so, if Hitler wouldn't have been so arrogant and insisting on the trio of flashy super battleships when there was absolutely no possibility of Germany ever even matching the Royal Navy in strength in any area, when his commander of submarines told him time and again that if Hitler would give priority to Submarine construction and they started the war with 300 submarines then he could guarantee Hitler that the German submarine force could force England to surrender within the first few months. Hitler never listened and his three super battleships were all sink without making any real contribution to the war, in fact the Bismark was sunk without ever sighting the English convoys Hitler expected it to desimate. Even his pocket battleships had only a minimal impact. Only the submarine force has any kind of significant impact. In fact with only 57 subs at the beginning of the war the Germans came very very close to sinking enough merchant shipping to force England to come to terms with Germany and this winning the war. Without any doubts whatsoever at all if Donetiz would have been given his 300 submarines, which Germany could have achieved had they not wasted the huge amount of resources on the three pointless super battleships, then Germany would have easily been successful in sinking enough ship's to starve England into surrender, or at the very least a negotiated armistice with Hitler. In either case Hitler wins the war against England and most likely wins the entire war as America couldn't have struck at Germany with no bases to do so. He most likely would have won against the USSR had he been able to concentrate all his forces, resources,and power against Russia without having to worry about leaving large portions of available forces, especially aircraft, to continue to fight and guard against england, and later America and the exact thing Hitler swore to never do, indeed what he identified as the reason Germany lost world war one, to fight a two front war, yet that's exactly what he did he abandoning the invasion of England regardless of losses and turning to attack russia. I wandered off subject a great deal but one thing leads to another, lol. To finish if the British would have kept the Brownings as standard .50 cal machine guns there is no doubts that they would have shot down far more of the German aircraft in the battle of Britain and it would have been so razors edge close. Also they would have lost much fewer of their experiences fighter pilots with lots of flight time, versus the green pilots they threw into the fires towards the end of the battle that had almost no real time in the fighters and tended to die quickly, exactly like the German pilots in the same situations at the end of the war with the Luftwaffe badly mauled, maybe even none of those green pilots would even have been necessary. The difference in power between the .50 and the .303 would have made a huge difference. The hurricane armed with eight .50s would have shredded the heinkles he 111s just like the Big Republic P47s did with their eight .50s when they came with the Americans later on, they really do look like the German bombers suddenly ran into a huge cheese grater with huge chunks flying off in all directions, it's very impressive. And even though the Spits would only have six it still would have made them far more dangerous and lethal to the German 109s. Why they never changed even when it became clear their bombers and patrol planes were way undergunned is still a mystery. At least their fighters went with the much heavier, but much slower, 20mms cannon. The slower forcing rate was why the Americans mostly stuck with the .50s as they believed the far higher rate of fire the .50 had would more than make up for the slight loss of hitting power and .maybe they were right who knows...

Go to the air and space Museum in Washington DC

JEEZ THIS DOC IS FULL OF ERRORS. The Corsair was NOT known as the WHISPERING death it was nicknamed the WHISTLEING death because the gap between ailerons and wing coincidently made a whistleing sound when it dove like in a ground attack.

All legendary aircraft now in the realm of history as alot of them are no longer flying in numbers and haven't for years and years

The psycological effect of the shark mouth on the Japanese is the Japanese superstition about when a person are eaten by a shark he's soul is lost to hell.

Why the British didn't put some 50s on they planes I will never know. They had to get very close to shoot rifle bullets.

P.S. Right on Mr.Miller.

Sorry, but the flying tigers did not fly their first mission until after Pearl Harbor

First in flight. Kitty Hawk North Carolina

The lack of the Focke Wolf 190 is a glaring omission. Some performance figures would also be in order.

Oh god, I hope there isn't any inappropriate music

The poor Italians, not only did they choose the wrong side of the war, they developed the Fiat Fighter, with 50% less everything... Some of the greatest pilots of the early 20th century, thrown away with flying Fiats. And here in American 2020/21, we have riots by fascistic anti-fascist, calling peaceful Americans Fascists. Yes, I'm talking to your Portland Fascist Oregon...

By the end of the war, P-47 Thunderbolts were able to hit 472 mph. How different things would have been if the Army Air Corps had accepted Lockheed's L-133 proposal and unleashed them in the war.

you forgot to mention that the P47 was still in use during the Vietnam war flying with the search and rescue helicopters then known as a sandy

The right brothers came out of Dayton Ohio