Best Pacific Fighter?

Yamamoto had been educated in the USA, and therefore had spent a considerable time here. Unlike the other Japanese leadership, he had a very good idea of the way American's think and also its size and industrial power.

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[evangilder]

I agree, Willow, it is important for people to remember but I expected better out of Dreamworks for historical accuracy. I think Yamamoto was very apprehensive at starting a war with the US. He was the only one who had actually been to the US, as you said RG and knew that if we needed to, we could crank up our industrial output.

Just off memory, IIRC, the US economy was seven times the size of the Japanese economy in the 1938-39 fiscal year. And the Japanese economy was on a war footing, the US economy was just barely comming out of the depression.

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[MP-Willow]

Evenglider, true Dreamworks dose normaly do a betterjob of histroy, but then they also had to make some exceptions for being hollywood as well. I did realy like the way that the navey nurses were shown. That job must have been hell to take care or or try the, all the burn kids and covvered in oil.

[DAVIDICUS]

Too bad the poll left out the P-47N Thunderbolt.

[cheddar cheese]

That was my bad. Want me to add it?

[Glider]

If the P47N is to be included then it seems to me that the Ki100 should also be given a chance. Most people will also agree that the Ki84 was a very good fighter capable of giving any American fighter a hard time and should also be included.
Out of the 2 my vote would be for the Ki100. I know that on paper it doesn't look as good but the Pilots always say that the 100 was the best Army fighter and who am I to disagree with the people who's lives were on the line.
I don't know how the Ki43 got put on the list. It was very slow. very poorly armed, very weak and couldn't dive for anything. All it had was agility. A CR42 would have had a fighting chance against one.
A great fighter needs to have a balance and this isn't it.

[lesofprimus]

Hmmm.... I think one of the criteria is that the plane has some operational usage in theatre.. The 100 and the 47N did not really have the "Time on Station" to be included in this poll.......

I also agree the -43 and the -40 should not have been included, but it was CC's poll, so he's the man.... I also think that the Zero getting more votes than the Shiden Kai is a joke, but agree with the rest of the poll voting.......

[MP-Willow]

The P-47N did have "tiime on station" from Sipain or earlier to theend of the war. it was created for the Pacific. But maybe I am a little jadded for it.
The ki-100 was not in the numbers. I think part of the poll was for operations.

[HealzDevo]

I say P-38 Lightning which was a good fighter with long range and ability. It was even captured in small numbers by the Germans, who evaluated it. If WW2 had gone on longer I think the fighters and bombers in both theatres would have standardised a bit more than they were at 1945.

[cheddar cheese]

P-38 eh...good man

[the lancaster kicks ass]

Originally Posted by HealzDevo

It was even captured in small numbers by the Germans, who evaluated it.

as they did with many planes, they proberly managed to capture more P-38s than they did many other planes........

[cheddar cheese]

LOL I doubt that...they had loads of B-17's. Ive seen one Luftwaffe P-38, and 2 Italian ones.

[elmilitaro]

Hey the hellcat was the best with a 19:1 kill ratio. Tell me what other plane had this record.

[cheddar cheese]

Well the finns used the B-239 to a kill ration of 26:1 But obviously that isnt Pacific.