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Re: Luftwaffe Uses Of P-47s and P-51s In Combat?
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Originally Posted by jednastka
As I understand it, the key issue was that the standard Axis aviation gasoline quality was 87 octane, much lower than the 100 octane used by Allied air forces. .......... Using low octane gas in a high octane engine would cause that engine to seize and to fail. This happened with the Italian capture P-38.
Vic
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https://forum.warthunder.com/index.p...-the-italians/
The P-38 captured by the Italians was the only "captured" WW2 aircraft used by it's captors in actual combat (as different to "spy" missions), that I've found with documented evidence and not just hearsay. I've attached a link to the warthunder site for quick reference. Despite its appearance on the gaming site, the Regia Aeronautica P-38 combat sortie is referenced in some detail in a number of other books. (Just not at hand to quote quickly.)
...geoff
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- converting fuel into noise.
Last edited by bearoutwest; 19th March 2020 at 01:24.
Reason: ...seemed to have originally skipped a half-sentence
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