Why This 'Legendary' Fighter Was A Death Trap Before One Simple Change

Описание: October 14, 1943. Sixty B-17s don't come home from Schweinfurt. Six hundred men. One afternoon. The Eighth Air Force bomber crews had a 30% chance of surviving their tour of duty — and everyone knew it.

The fix was already sitting in a California factory. A plane nobody planned to build, designed by a German-born engineer, saved by a British test pilot's memo, powered by an engine it was never meant to have. The P-51 Mustang didn't just fix the bomber problem — it broke the Luftwaffe's spine and made D-Day possible.

This is how an accidental fighter changed the war.

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