+1 to what WTE_Galway said.
I would also add that Luftwaffe losses in the Battle of France were 30% higher than the Germans estimated they would be.
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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.
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