Over the course of World War II, combat aircraft flown by the United States, either with the United States Army Air Corps or U.S. Navy, accomplished tens of thousands of air combat victories or kills and successfully shot down a manned enemy aircraft. Just the F-6F Hellcat, a single variety of planes, is accredited with destroying 5,156 enemy planes in the Pacific Theater. Over in Europe, the legendary P-51 Mustang alone scored 4,950 air victories.  Over the skies of
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