The Best WW Ⅱ Fighter

摘要

The bottom chart shows that the P-47 Thunderbolt flew twice as many sorties, dropped 2,010 percent more bomb tonnage, destroyed 62 percent of the enemy's aircraft in the air and 75 percent on the ground; it suffered only 58 percent of the losses (per sortie) of the P-51 Mustang runner-up. The P-47, therefore, earned its nomination as being the best fighter in the ETO.