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Sixgun Sheridan Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 Well, I guess that's one way to evade a Zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 These WWII training films are interesting. I watch a lot of them. You seldom hear about the P-39 even though they made a lot of them. Did a little research and it seems the P-39s performance at high altitude was sub-standard so they were not adopted for use in the European theatre. Seems a lot of them went to Russia and were quite successful on the Eastern Front. The last Allied plane shot down by a Luftwaffe plane was on May 8, 1945 and it was a Russian P-39. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 3 hours ago, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said: These WWII training films are interesting. I watch a lot of them. You seldom hear about the P-39 even though they made a lot of them. Did a little research and it seems the P-39s performance at high altitude was sub-standard so they were not adopted for use in the European theatre. Seems a lot of them went to Russia and were quite successful on the Eastern Front. The last Allied plane shot down by a Luftwaffe plane was on May 8, 1945 and it was a Russian P-39. To "save money" the powers-that-were decided to omit the turbo-supercharger necessary for high altitude performance. A buddy's dad was a '39 pilot in the Pacific, and actually did shoot down a zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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