
Oh, well, never said I knew everything, if much of anything.


Actually Hagar you got it partially right.
The P-51 came into being when the British went to the US looking to buy P-40's in January 1940. The production lines were running full bore so the British couldn't get any. Instead they wer treated to a discussion fron North American who told them they could have a prototype ready in 120 days.
Two Mustang I aircraft were delivered with the Merlin engine. The british at the time however kept the Merlin for the Spit and others. It wasn't until they licensed the Merlin to the US, and Packard began building them, that the aircrafts true potential as a high altitude fighter became known.
Actually that was the Balkans that Hitler had to get Musilini out of trouble. The same could be said for the early north African campaigns. The invasion of Crete was an entirely German affair.
You forget that in the closing months of the war the Russians did attack.
12) German Army Group A drove to seize Russian oil fields in the Crimea.
May I assume that this is the Army that was stopped at Stalingrad?
May I assume that this is the Army that was stopped at Stalingrad?
Group Captain John "Cat's Eyes" Cunningham CBE, DSO and two Bars, DFC and Bar, (1917-July 2002), was an Officer in the Royal Air Force during World War II. Flying first Blenheims and then the powerful Bristol Beaufighter, by the end of the Blitz in May 1941 he had become the most famous night fighter pilot, successfully claiming 14 night raiders using AI (Airborne Interception - the aircraft version of what became later know as radar.)
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