The Secrets Of The Legendary P-51 Mustang And How It Dominated The Skies Early in World War II, the Axis Powers of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan had three distinct aircraft that were able to wreak havoc on the relatively underdeveloped air power of the Allied nations. There was the Messerschmitt Bf 109 that was able to escort German bomber planes in the Third Reich's initial blitz across Europe. As an escort and a standalone fighter plane, it made short work of many British Royal Air Force (RAF) planes, not to mention multiple planes from Poland, France, and the Soviet...