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A Fighter And An Escort Changes The Course Of World War II

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P-51 Mustang: A Fighter and an Escort changes the course of World War II
Theodore M. Aarstad Jr.
United States Army Aviation Warrant Officer Career College

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P-51 Mustang: A Fighter and an Escort changes the course of World War II
Long before the B-17 came to be and, in fact, long before the United States would enter the Second World War, the Army Air Corps put out a request for bomber prototypes. Three companies answered the call with Boeing Airplane Company being one them. Originally labeled the Model 299, Boeing raised eyebrows in excitement by flying their offering 2,000 miles nonstop at an average speed of 252 mph from the plant in Seattle, WA to Wright Field, OH. As stated in the book Boeing Aircraft since 1916 by Peter M. Bowers (1966) (P. 245), the flight, the name, the armament, etc. “…resulted in a rash of publicity unlike that given to any individual aeroplane since the transatlantic flight of Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis eight years before.” Unfortunately, before

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