Beautiful ships.
Like most surface combatants designed before the outbreak of WW2, however, they are totally insufficient in anti aircraft capability. You can see the attempts to add AAA in the later refits. Still not enough however.
Che bella macchnina.
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Personally speaking, the P-40 could contend on an equal footing with all the types of Messerschmitts, almost to the end of 1943.
~Nikolay Gerasimovitch Golodnikov
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