I can’t really pick a favourite because I only know a few of the units involved (the 82nd, the 101, the 1st Airborne and the Polish Brigade), but Market-Garden always brings to my mind the scene in A Bridge Too Far in which General Horrocks stands in front of a big room of XXX Corps officers and jovially declares: “Gentlemen, this is a story you will tell your grandchildren…and mightily bored they’ll be.”
Favorite WW2 Fighter Plane
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F6F Hellcat score more kill any other plane in war from what I read. They do this against Zero and other Japan plane. F6F Hellcat better than Zero.
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the hell cat didnt come until later at the end of 1943 so the zero took the seas and battle fields in asia kicked aassssssss! annyways weres the betty weres the zero (u can kick the betty out though!
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@ABWorsham:
I’m surprised the Me-262 has so much love. I thought the winner of this poll would be a plane with a longer combat record.
If your talking about the combat record including confirmed kills for WW2, excluding planes that were used in Korea post war, then the 109 has my vote. On the other hand, in terms of a stone cold killing machine that could withstand a lot of punishment and perform like a bat out of hell, then the P-47 would have my vote as well.
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I voted for the P-38 first. Love the design, and it was the aircraft that killed Yamamoto, so it gets bonus points.
Voted for the Mosquito second…possibly the best bang for the buck of any WWII aircraft, and a superb night-aircraft.
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interesting someone voted for the hellcat i am guessing because there is no love for the pacific(those japanese had no chance at late 1943 sigh)
Anyways the me is really high now.
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I thought that this was a good place for this link about a Mustang. Enjoy…
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i voted for the spitfire. it is the one i remember the most from watching wwII movies, the spitfires were always out numbered and out gunned, and when the RAF got the warning of the messerschmit’s imminent arrival to britain they would be in the air shooting down the nazi aircraft 10-1. i dont know if that is exactly true though :-)
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not 10 to 1, more like 2.5 to 1
better pilots, Radar giving early warning, and bombing in daylight.
Germans should have just sent in fighters to raid airfields and engage fighters. Bombers should have came over only in night.
The loses are mainly bombers and stukas
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yeah, around 2:1 is more accurate, i was looking at some stats for the battle of britain losses, luftwaffe 1750 losses, RAF 900 losses, not counting the blitz.
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The German’s lack of a modern escort fighter was a huge set back in the Battle of Britain. The Me-110 was a complete failure at this job. The Me-109 was a great fighter, however, it was an interceptor not an escort fighter.
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yeah, the BF-110 was that bad they needed a fighter escort on on their escort missions.
http://www.military-aircraft.org.uk/ww2-fighter-planes/
some great information and pictures of wwII aircraft here.
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All i can say is that somtimes more is better as the luftwaffe could have won but they stopped bombing airfileds so this gave the allies a chance to get airfields sending planes. 1 thing what i like abotu when i play is bombing 2 airfactories both of them which they have it will take 5 turns to get 2 new ones and that is if not buying any tanks/men/ships since u can’t buy planes until turn 3 ofincome it is brilliant and germany maybe loses 10 fighters out of 50
This stops the allies from an ealry d-day which is 1 of the only flaws in this
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@Imperious:
not 10 to 1, more like 2.5 to 1
better pilots, Radar giving early warning, and bombing in daylight.
Germans should have just sent in fighters to raid airfields and engage fighters. Bombers should have came over only in night.
The loses are mainly bombers and stukas
The highest kill ratio for british fighters in the Battle of Britain is the Hurricane due to it’s job shooting down easy targets like the 110 and Ju-87’s. Not to challenge your imperial knowledge, oh great giver of karma :-) But I believe the British eventually had a 5-1 kill ratio going. This is credited to the brave RAF pilots of both the Hurricane and the Spitfire.
An EXCELLENT book to read is “Spitfires, Thunderbolts and Warm Beer” which are the diaries of Lee Gover, a volunteer spitfire pilot in the battle of Britain. Excellent first hand accounts. He was the only one in his squad to return from the battle at Dieppe.
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I was quoting for the overall planes shot down, not individual by plane type.
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@Imperious:
I was quoting for the overall planes shot down, not individual by plane type.
Oh ok. So was I but I was talking about their highest level not overall for the entire battle. I could definately be wrong though.
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i think it varied considerably throughout the campaign, at times the ratio would have been higher than 2:1, maybe even 5:1, i doubt it would ever have been much higher than that. at other times the ratio would have been in favour of the luftwaffe. i can not say for sure, although i think the ratio was calculated week by week.
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of course it did as it varied by day and hour. I am talking about cumulative total for the entire campaign in 1940
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i have been reading some records taken at the time of the battle of britain accounted day by day,
during the first days the luftwaffe suffered very high losses compared to the RAF, the ratio being as high as 6:1 at times.
i dont know the exact overall ratio of the battle, i suspect it could be as high as 3:1. -
There settled.
Aircraft Losses: England
Fighters: 1,023
Bombers: 376
Maritime: 148 aircraft (Coastal Command)
Total: 1,547 aircraft destroyed.Aircraft Losses: Germany
Fighters: 873
Bombers:1,014
Total: 1,887 aircraft destroyed
Luftwaffe; Pilots and Aircrew Killed: 2,500.Germany lost about 17% more than UK in total plane loses, but Germany lost as many bombers as UK lost fighters and thats a alot.
Civilian Casualties
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The Imperious leader settles all with one crushing blow. Well done on getting that info for us!
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