Well it kind of is in a way as it's a modified P-40 airframe. The big difference is the D models got rid of the razorback and added a bubble canopy.
The statement about 38's, 47's and spits beat the mustang because they got to them first is untrue. After the battle for Britian, the spits could not stay with the bombers king enough to reach the fighters. Same with the 38 and 47. In the later part if the war they were able to, but by then the mustang escorts had chewed up alot of stuff while protecting the bombers. Then there was the New years day raid by the Luftwaffe were mustangs destroyed half of the 175 or so planes while the 47's got 1/4th if the huge 175 plane formation.
The mustang wasn't that successful it the pacific because if the zeros agility, but again it had longer legs than the 38 so it could protect the bombers
You of course mean Bodenplatte. Yes were familiar with that, and with the simplistic history of the air war in two lines or less that's become standard wrote in the west.
Now re-read what I wrote. I never said they beat the rustang (which they do in the proper settings) but that there was merely a shadow of what the Luftwaffe had been for the rustang to beat up on.
The Luftwaffe that the rustang encountered was a far cry from the elite airforce that the Brits only survived against in the BoB. The Luftwaffe had the best planes and the best pilots (although all of the best pilots of the war ended up being German anyway). Cracking this world-beating airforce was the task of the USAAF and RAF well before the rustang ever showed up in any meaningful numbers. By then much of the luftwaffe had been annihilated. Its best pilots whittled away, aircraft development had stagnated to various versions of the 109 and 190, and pilot shortages were crippling. You know that there were times when there were less than 500 aircraft ON PAPER to defend the entirety of continental Europe? Hell we sent more than that over in one raid! Operationally those numbers were sometimes cut by half.
The mustang showed up to a battle that had already been won. The core that made the Luftwaffe the best air force in the history of aerial warfare was gone by 43.
Ask yourself why are there no really great American or RAF aces? Why no 100+ killers? because there was practically no Luftwaffe left. As Rall said when commenting on why the Luftwaffe racked up their amazing kill numbers "...well you have to find the enemy. Many American pilots did their entire tour without seeing a German fighter, but we, we always found targets."
Dont kid yourself into thinking that it was some sort of Uber fighter just because that's what we Americans like to think of it as. it wasn't so super duper advanced over the enemy that it just crushed the Luftwaffe by its mere presence. A good pilot in a 109 meant game over for a P-51, the only thing is the RAF and P-47's made sure there weren't many of those around by the time the mustang showed up.
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