"The F4U (Navy Corsair) is the best damned fighter plane in the world," Paine said. "One took two Zeros off my tail." On April 8, 1943, Rear Admiral Ralph Davison visited the Goodyear plant in Akron.

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With that long preamble/soapbox speech aside, let’s get on with what I consider to be the five best fighter jets of World War II ... manned adversaries’ aircraft in WWII, making her maiden ...