Ah yes, the "aluminum overcast".
If you have not stood next to (or rather under) one you cannot get a real grasp of the scale of that aircraft.
It is simply amazing.
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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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