And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
You're not wrong with that point. The D model didn't enter service until March of 1944 and by that time the Luftwaffe had a shortage of experienced pilots.
Line those 40’s up…
ReplyDeleteAbout 80 years ago those were the stuff of nightmares for some folks. A world of hurt on the wing.
ReplyDeleteThere must be 57 Jugs out there!
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the PERFECT Steve Martin reference!!
DeleteLots of Hamilton Standard propellers instead of Curtiss Electrics.
ReplyDeleteThe Jug doesn't get all the credit it's due. Sure, the P-51D was a great aircraft but those later P-47M/N variants were monsters.
ReplyDeleteI'm of the opinion that by the time the P-51 showed up, the B-17s, P-47s and P-38 had made the skies over Germany safe for the P-51
DeleteYou're not wrong with that point. The D model didn't enter service until March of 1944 and by that time the Luftwaffe had a shortage of experienced pilots.
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