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Best Fighter Aircrafts Of the Second World War

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Wars are one of the fastest catalysts for technological improvements. One of the results of the Second World War was the rapid development of aircraft technologies. In fact some of the best aircraft were made during the 1940s. Below is a list of some of the best fighters aircraft of the allied and axis forces. Please add to the list that you think make the cut.

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Messerschmitt Me 262 Report Abuse
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.
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Lockheed P-38 P40 Report Abuse
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P-51 Mustang Report Abuse
A long-range single-seat, the P51 was designed, built and airborne in just 117 days.
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Supermarine Spitfire Report Abuse
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.
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P-47 Thunder Bolt Report Abuse
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.
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Focke-Wulf FW 190 Report Abuse
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Focke wulf 190g Report Abuse
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!
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Nakajima Ki-84 Frank Report Abuse
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Kawanishi N1K Report Abuse
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Mitsubishi A6M Zero Report Abuse
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Messerschmitt Bf 109 Report Abuse
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Yakovlev Yak-3 Report Abuse
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Lavochkin La-5 Report Abuse
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Hawker Tempest Report Abuse
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f6f hellcat Report Abuse
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
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D H Mosquito Report Abuse
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Chance-Vought F4U Corsair Report Abuse
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.
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Messerschmitt Bf 110 Report Abuse
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Supermarine Seafire Report Abuse
like the spitfire, but launched off carriers
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Warhawk Flying Tiger Report Abuse
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