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View Poll Results: What is in your opinion, the best fighter one twopunch by country of WW2?
USAAF - P-47 Thunderbolt / P-51 Mustang 14 73.68%
USN - F-6F Hellcat / F-4u Corsair 2 10.53%
Germany - ME-109 / FW-190 1 5.26%
Britian - Hawker Hurricane / Supermarine Spitfire 2 10.53%
Russia - Yak-9 / La-7 0 0%
Japan - A-6M Zero / KI-61 Tony 0 0%
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Unread 12-21-2005, 09:55 PM
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I voted P-51/47. The biggest eye-opener for me was seeing the majority of these planes side-by-side-by-side at the Champlain Air Museum in Chandler, AZ. The FW and ME's are TINY compared to the P-47 and P-51. You can definitely see the design philosophy differences.
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While not being an expert on fighters by any means, it's obvious the P-51 was the best fighter overall. However, I voted for for the Spitfire based on the fact that it won the Battle of Britain at a time when the Luftwaffe was sending out it's best pilots in ME-109's, a tough plane in it's own right.

For pure looks, I like the F-4u Corsair. It's an odd shape but it just looks cool to me.
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I voted for the Hellcat / Corsair combo. They have if im not mistaken, the highest kill to loss ratio of USA planes in the war. Hard to argue with numbers. Plus im a little biased, the corsair is my favorite American plane of the war. I always wondered how that plane would of stacked up against the ME-109 & FW-190.
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I was actually hard pressed not to take the Hellcat/Corsair combo
Very close to a tie with P-51/47.
All were excellent in their own ways.
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I forgot to mention how i fell in love with the Corsair. As a kid growing up in the 70's, I never missed an episode of Baa Baa Black Sheep. Robert Conrad was the man! I even had the Corsair and Zero models that monogram had made of the fighters from the show.
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