Favorite WW2 Fighter Plane

I personally love the Corsair
And of course respect must go to the Me-262

I have always liked the look of the Me-109, so sleek looking and powerful. 8-)

@Krupp:

I have always liked the look of the Me-109, so sleek looking and powerful. 8-)

I KNOW!!! :-) I LOVE that plane. It’s actually one of my favorite fighters of all time. The 109 e-4 trop. That plane is aweseome!. Seeing footage of those things dive and fly in formation is amazing. Those pilots (in the beginning) were some of the best trained and combat experienced pilots in the world due to their experience in the Spanish Civil War and The Battle of Britain.

I’m suprised that the ME-262 has so many votes! Granted, it was the peak of technology, it had a lot of technical problems. There isn’t a single pilot that would fly that thing these days. I think there’s no flyable ones right now but they’re in the process of remaking one that is safer to fly than the originals.

The 109 e-4 trop is certainly a beautiful plane, I could only imagine having a squadron of those coming towards me… :-o

@Krupp:

The 109 e-4 trop is certainly a beautiful plane, I could only imagine having a squadron of those coming towards me… :-o

I know man! Think of being in a B-17f and getting jumped by like 200 hundred of them with no fighter escort. All the way to your target and  most of the way back. Those pilots would come at you head on (12 o’clock high) “GREAT movie btw” and sometimes the pilot would be killed or the 109 damaged and they’d just ram right into you. I heard a personal account from another B-17 crew member that saw one crash head on into the Fortress and the spinning engine and propeller came ripping out the tail gunners section still flying for a couple hundred yards.

The me is up spitfire and the yaks and everyone else move get more people and i still say this were is the japanese zero seriously!  the pacific theatre was an important part of japan didnt ally itself with germany maybe when germany and usa fought dundun dun japanese empire yes the glorius o no ahh back stabbers sorry this will need a transmition.

K im back the japanese killed all the american planes and canada allied the japanese lol!

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.

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!

@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.

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.

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.

I thought that this was a good place for this link about a Mustang.  Enjoy…

http://www.grayeagles.org/video.htm

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 :-)

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

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.

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.

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

@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.