I've read about P-38 crews in New Guinea that would pack the gun bay with bottles of beer and then have the pilot climb to 20,000+ feet and make a rapid decent back to the field as it was the only way to get a cold beer in that hell hole.
Great post Tailspin.
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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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