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Re: The best USAAF fighter pilots have been the soviets
Gentlemen:
If you will check how the Russians modified "their" P-39s, you will be aware that they were different from ours. I posted a reply previously about what our pilots who ran the first shuttle run to Russia saw and what they said about the Russian P-39s but some experts poo pooed the information ... so take your pick. Either we used them incorrectly or we were unwilling to modify them as the Russians did at Piryatin. The Russians were confident they could handle a 109 in a
P-39 up to about 12,000 feet.
Cordially, Art Fiedler
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