Top 5 US Naval Fighters of all time

The only thing stopping the Buffalo's claim is those pesky Finns who miraculously did OK with it, even against Bf 109's whose only excuse must surely have been overconfidence? In 1940 the RAF sent all its own Buffaloes to the far east " out of harms way". Oops.

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Suprised nobody said P-51....... barf..............Hellcat hands down all time best fighter, sadly very few left flying.

edit OOPS were talking Navy not AAF

[edit on 13-9-2008 by 38181]

You are right about the Zero, there was an RAE flight test report which offered advice to British and American pilots in the threatre, in comparison between the F6F, F4F and Zero it said in the 'general advice' section simply "Do NOT dogfight with the zero". The emphasis on the word 'not' is there in the original.