re: 73 Years ago today: Battle of Stalingrad ends with the surrender of 6th Army

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could outdive the frick out of anything else in the air at the time though.

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Exactly. A P40 pilot would always try to make high level diving attacks at a Zero because this was his one huge advantage. What they'd never do, at lest not without getting shot out of the sky was get into a low altitude turning dogfight with a Zero.