Best Fighter Aircrafts Of the Second World War

The Schwalbe or Swallow was the first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft. produced toward the end of World War II and saw action starting in 1944 as a multi-role fighter/bomber/reconnaissance/interceptor warplane for the Luftwaffe. It has been considered the most advanced German aviation design in service. Historians have argued that had this plane been introduced earlier during World War II, it would have changed the course of the war in favor of the Germans.

A long-range single-seat, the P51 was designed, built and airborne in just 117 days.

The Spitfire became the backbone of RAF After the Battle of Britain and saw action in the European Theatre, Pacific Theatre and the South-East Asian theatre. The Spitfire has always been compared to its main adversary, the Messerschmitt Bf 109; both used similar designs concept of coupling a streamlined airframe to a powerful liquid-cooled V12 engine.

Known as the "Jug," the P47 thunderbolt was the biggest, heaviest, and most expensive fighter aircraft in history to be powered by a single piston engine. It was one of the main United States Army Air Forces fighters of World War II.

this was probably germanys best fighter and could seriously out perform even the spitfire of its time. Rugged, radial engined but not produced in sufficient numbers!

the first plane that could actually compete against the zero one of the famous kills the hellcat had was against a japanese ace with 9 kills he thought he was fighting the under powered wild cat and took the hellcat on a climbing fight big istake

The mainstay of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marines, Fleet Air Arm and the Royal New Zealand Air Force, the corsair became one of the most capable fighter-bomber of World War II.

like the spitfire, but launched off carriers