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Old May 6th 05, 05:30 PM
George Patterson
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Corky Scott wrote:

I've read that the Germans figured this
out and exploited the situation against P-38's but this seems pretty
unlikely to me.


The standard defensive maneuver used by 109 pilots at that point in the war was
a split-ess or bump over into a dive. They didn't have to change a thing against
the Lightnings. They were forced to use other tactics against the P-47 -- it
could stay with them in a dive and didn't have the temporary power loss problem
that British aircraft had initiating a dive.

George Patterson
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