165 - P-51 Mustang
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Is the P Forty Seven a Long Range Fighter?
The p forty seven was initially thought of as just another addition to a us. Fighter force. But the factors, factors in europe, quickly pushed it into that role as that long range fighter. The germans figured out all we've got to do is stage our heavy fighters just beyond the range of the p forty seven. When the p fortySeven have to turn and go for home, we can send in anything we want to attack the bomber stream - including lumbering things like ik ike dornear two 17 s and j 80 eights or nd b f one tens with he werfor granada 21 projectile. That slowed the attacking aircraft weigh down, but it
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