and the F4U corsair being the best fighter of the war?

hmmmmmm debatable!!


how would you class a fighter as the best?

on kills alone?
kill to death ratio?
armament?
speed?
manouvrability?
cost?


in all honesty their is no "best fighter of ww2" because for as long as humans are alive then they will always debate between many different choices.

try a poll just for peace of mind and give the choices as erm..... for example -

spitfire
mustang
109
corsair
zero

just 5 examples their and see what results you would get. I myself would choose the spitfire, but know for a fact many would disagree and then tell me im wrong and why they think "plane of choice" is better.

at the end of the day.... each to their own :D

Exactly my point. Enjoying one or several planes of one side does not make you bias. I enjoy Soviet Planes more than British or American planes, but I still enjoy learning and reading about all nations planes. I just prefer the Soviet planes over the others.

And yes, many of the women became aces within a day! But sadly one of the best women pilots to grace the Easter skies was killed :(

i tottaly agree with soviot ace

i think it was amazing that the russians built such good planes i mean at one point in the war the were litarally being exterminated were on the brink of starvation fighting for there very surviaval

if any of you have seen the film enermy at the gate ?? they were so short on guns and ammo the would give one guy a rifle and the other guy a clip of ammo and told him when the first guy is shot u pick up his rifle and cary on fighting !!!! so for them to turn the tide around and push the germans back and then take the fight all the way back to berlin was amazing :cool:

just my 2 cents

Yes the W.A.S.P, Valentina Grizodubova, Lily Litvyak, Marina Raskova all where great pilots. The germans pilots i think called them something else, Anybody Know?

All you're doing is proving me right. You're obsessed with russian planes.

I dunno if the German pilots had a nickname for the women, but Lily Litvyak, was called the "White Rose of Stalingrad". I'm not actually sure how that came around, but I think it was because her plane usually had a white rose painted on either the nose cowling, or some where else?

Your absolutely right. I am obsessed with Russian Planes. But if this was a forum on Pacific planes, then I would totally be talking about A6M2 and M5 Zeros. It's all a matter of preference.

You your self are biased against me for liking Russian planes, so I think it evens out? Don't you?

check mate. :P

They called some of them "Night Witches" I believe? Because they did a lot of bombing raids during the night presumably.

Oh he's right. They called the 558th Night Bomber Regiment which would later become known as the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment. It was an all women's regiment.

Good going Matt. I even had to look it up in my book on Soviet Aces, just to make sure.