During World War II, the Mustang destroyed 4,950 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air—the most of any U.S. fighter in the European Theater. The North American P-51 Mustang may well be the most iconic U.S.

The doctrine of daylight precision bombing was at the core of military thinking and planning among the most powerful group of US generals and thinkers in the prewar days of the late 1930s, many of ...