1946: Build your own airforce

Not the best fighter in the world, but it made a phenominal attack plane, once they started mounting rockets and using it as a support aircraft; it went from a so-so fighter to that grand daddy of the A-10.

Er no, that was the Mosquito that packed the biggest punch in '39-'45.

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Not the best fighter in the world, but it made a phenominal attack plane, once they started mounting rockets and using it as a support aircraft; it went from a so-so fighter to that grand daddy of the A-10.

Actually the granddaddy of the A-10 is (pick according to your perspective): The P-47, Il-2/Il-10,, Typhoon, or B-25 solid nose with 75mm cannon.

The P-38 was a good ground attack aircraft from the perspective of payload, but it has far too vulnerable to ground fire because of the liquid cooled Allison engines.
 
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