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Old 25th January 2011, 13:18
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Re: Air fighting tactics, British vs. US, 1941-45.

It is a little simplistic but the winner was often the one who due to better training, didn't let the plans go once the shooting starts. If your wingman left you as soon as the shooting started then you were wide open.

Its fair to say that the USA were able to use a lot of the lessons learnt from the RAF, but quite rightly it didn't mean that they followed the same path. Interestingly Japan didn't learn from the Luftwaffe despite the opportunity.
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