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Collectibles present, the first single-engine plane based in Britain to
penetrate Germany, first to reach Berlin, first to go with the heavy
bombers over the Ploiesti oil fields in Romania, and first to make a
majorscale, all-fighter sweep specifically to hunt down the dwindling
Luftwaffe.
One of the highest honors accorded to the Mustang was
its rating in 1944 by the Truman Senate War Investigating Committee as
“the most aerodynamically perfect pursuit plane in existence.”