P-51 Mustang Combat Missions: First-Hand Accounts of P-51 Mustang Ops Over Nazi Germany

160 pp. Few combat aircraft have gained such a fine and enduring reputation as the P-51 Mustang. Developed in the late 1930s by North American Aviation, initially for RAF use, it quickly caught the attention of the USAAF. Once the Allison powerplant was swapped for a Packard-built Rolls-Royce Merlin, the P-51 became one of the best - arguably the best - American fighters of World War II, capable of taking on any machine the Luftwaffe could throw at it.