Tuesday, March 11All That Matters

The US fighter that destroyed over 7000 enemy aircraft

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  • In the European Theater, P-47 pilots destroyed more than 7,000 enemy aircraft, more than half of them in air-to-air combat. They destroyed the remainder on very dangerous ground attack missions.

    So a really high percentage of these were grounded planes, not all were air-to-air. What a way to skew the numbers

    Waraviation.org has it as

    Even though the P-47’s combat debut wasn’t until April 1943, it flew more than half a million sorties in Europe and the Pacific. The P-47s would claim nearly 4,000 enemy aircraft,

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