Dogfights: " Thunderbolt "

P47 Dogfight over Germany

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[jonboy1919]

These guys were true warriors, facing death head on, no fire and forget. These men and their generation preserved democracy and freedom. My hat is off to you gentlemen.  Thanks for your service and sacrifice.

[paul6t4]

By late 1944 the 109 was effectively an obsolete airframe kept in service by a hard pressed Luftwaffe which did not have enough numbers of a suitable replacement. The only 2000 hp db605 available in 1944 was the DB605 DC ( Mercedes Benz AG Archives Stuttgart) and by that stage of the war the 109G was being fitted with what ever 605 engine available just to get them in the air, resulting in a great variation in performance of aircraft of the same version.

[homoKaliptus]

this show helped me a lot to learn how to play on a PC game " warbirds 3 "

[therealbamlee]

@jonboy1919 I think the ordinary infantry men deserve the highest honors. they really did experience the horrors of war, close combat, fighting for your life with your bare hands sometimes. dont get me wrong, the fighter pilots rock, but its a hole different story. afterall they were sitting in a big metal thing firing on other big metal thing. not directly on a human, or fighting with a bayonett. hope you understand my point. no hard feelings though

[Salguine]

@OstWind84 What are "rots" and "pulks"?

[xxuncexx]

@OstWind84 its not fiction you dumbass, he didnt make it up. maybe its sounds more logic but the FACTS are it DIDNT HAPPEN.

[OstWind84]

the luftwaffe never started in germany an operation with 40 bf-109´s (bodenplatte was in belgium and NL), i can´t belive that!!! the luftwaffe starts in rots and not in pulks of 109´s. in every book you can read that most of allies pilots never saw an german fighter, and in this story, 30 or 40 109´s against (because of increasing) to 16 p-47. tim grace author and historian^^ i think 30 or 40 p-47 against 4 rots of bf-109´s is more believable.

[burjegol]

@Xiolablu3 not mentioned sir. probablythe same spit that outclimb him previously. His familiarization flight was early 1943 and the paddle blades were fitted their warbirds late autumn. by that mebbe you can deduce what spit model he was referring to.

[Xiolablu3]

@burjegol

Which version of the Spitfire did he say it was? The first could have been a mkIX or mkVIX, the 2nd a mkV. That 'report' is totally useless unless he mentions the marks of the Spitfire. The Spitfire doubled its max climb rate during the war from 2500fpm to over 5000fpm

[eaglemike1515]

@MrDriver300 sure there are you it seems you dont like to do research

[burjegol]

@existentialvoid And while on a familiarization flight over England, Johnson met a spitfire. he signalled a climb and the spit left the jug as if it was standing still. later, after being fitted swith paddle blades, while testing the plane, he again met a spitfire. signalling the pilot for a climb, the jug left behind the spit. He said "never again will a german pilot outclomb me in a jug. the new paddle blade is worth a 1000 hp".