{"id":1805962,"date":"2023-01-15T05:06:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T10:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1805962"},"modified":"2023-01-15T05:07:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T10:07:19","slug":"mustangs-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mustangs-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustangs to the Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmustangs-to-the-rescue%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1805962&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Amazon sells more than 70,000 books related to World War II. &#8220;untold story&#8221; Wings of War&#8217;s blurb from the publisher should be questioned. This short book by David Fairbank White and Margaret Stanback White recounts the impact of North American Aviation\u2019s P-51 Mustang on the success of the bombing campaign against Nazi Germany. In truth, it is a well-known tale recounted in many books, but for WWII buffs, it reminds one of the old joke: After the crash of 2008, a man kept calling his stock broker\u2019s office. He answered, &#8220;It was a suicide attempt.&#8221; &#8220;I know, I just like the sound of it.&#8221; So it is with this story. It&#8217;s so rewarding to continue reading about the amazing drama and triumphs of war. This book is a welcome addition.<\/p>\n<p>Field Marshal Hermann G\u00f6ring, the head of the Luftwaffe, reportedly told Allied interrogators that when he saw the Mustangs accompanying American B-17 bombers over Berlin, he knew &#8220;the jig was up.&#8221; For the first time in history, the German fighter aircrafts were no longer able to make clear runs at the bombers. Instead they faced a stronger opponent. Getting the leadership of the Army Air Force to adopt the Mustang as the bombers\u2019 principal fighter escort, however, was its own struggle.<\/p>\n<p>P-51 (P stood for all fighters, and was based on their classification as &#8220;pursuit&#8221; In the 1930s, planes were being designed by Edgar Schmued, a brilliant German immigrant. British officials requested that American companies submit plans to build a new fighter to replace the Supermarine Spitfire. North American Aviation, Schmued\u2019s company, produced the plans and a mock-up for the Mustang (named by the British) in about three months. It was beautiful. It still looks great today, as the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has a replica. The P-51 test version performed just as well as it looked. The P-51 test version was able to fly at speeds of 400 mph, climb 2300 feet per second, and fly more than 2,080 miles without refueling. This is far better than any German fighter.<\/p>\n<p>British ordered the first version of the plane, but the 1,120-horsepower Allison engine produced insufficient power above 25,000 feet. This meant that the P-51 could only fly at 25,000 feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are more than 70,000 books about World War II on Amazon so any claim about an &#8220;untold story&#8221; as the publisher blurb for Wings of War should be suspect. This short book by David Fairbank White and Margaret Stanback White recounts the impact of North American Aviation\u2019s P-51 Mustang on the success of the bombing campaign against Nazi Germany. In truth, it is a well-known tale recounted in many books, but for WWII buffs, it reminds one of the old joke: After the crash of 2008, a man kept calling his stock broker\u2019s office. When told for the 10th time that the man had committed suicide and asked why he kept calling, he replied, &#8220;I know, I just like the sound of it.&#8221; And so it is with this story: To read about the incredible drama and triumphs of the war is just so gratifying that the new books keep coming. This one is a welcome addition to the field.<br \/>\nThe post Mustangs to the Rescue appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1671,"featured_media":1805965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4092,14920,12701],"class_list":["post-1805962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-beacon","tag-mustangs","tag-rescue"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1805965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}