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Of Machines and Mortals

WWII Fighters

HELLCAT VERSUS CORSAIR • GRUMMAN TEST PILOT FLIES THE COMPETITION

THE HELLCAT/CORSAIR FRACAS CONTINUED IN GRUMMAN

THE GREAT HELLCAT/CORSAIR PRODUCTION RACE

ENGINE SUPERCHARGING

Flying the FW 190 • A legend gets checked out in the Butcher Bird

Meeting the Legendary Kurt Tank

SOUTH PACIFIC WARRIOR • A rare combat Mustang

PETER TEICHMAN’S HANGAR 11 COLLECTION

A Mustang’s Biography

Me 262 Mach 1 Mystery • Did the Reich get there first?

Nachtjagd (night hunt): The Bf 110 at Work

Supermarine Spitfire Elliptical Elegance

Lightning ACE! • P-38 Legend Robin Olds

GUNFIGHTER OF THE RISING SUN • A Zero pilot’s own story

“Hotrod” Jug

THE BEST WWII FIGHTERS • Which was number one?

“BEST FIGHTER” SELECTION CRITERIA

BEST FIGHTER EUROPEAN THEATER • Let’s go through the seven most numerous WW II European theater of operations (ETO) fighters and see how they compare as we work up to number one. I have ranked them in increasing order of the importance of their contributions (from 7 to 1).

The would-have-been best, if …

BEST FIGHTER » PACIFIC THEATER • As I did with the ETO fighter aircraft, I have ranked these Pacific theater of operations (PTO) warbirds to see how they compare. They are ranked in increasing order of their contributions (from 3 to 1).

Their warrior spirit lives on