P-40 Warhawk. My personal favorite, and the coolest and most rugged fighter built!

F4U Corsair. Another cool looking plane, successful as all hell and of course Baa Baa Black Sheep!

B-17G. How many fighters thought about getting close to this bad boy with all those guns and how tough it was?

Not many, I remember my days from the norwegian air force and when our instructor told about the "Firling" (the quad) a manned 4x 12.5mm/0.50cal machinegun anti-aircraft battery tho being phased out he said most pilots with half a working brain would stay out of the quad Anti-Aircraft dome as it would do serious damage. Point proved at the firing range shooting at 1.5cm (approx half inch) thick steel plates.

Thinking each B17 had 12~14 of them providing cover for it self and its buddies that would be one large sphere of pain. Desperation or madness to fly into that sphere.