ORIGINAL: box kite
WWII Europe taught us that being high tec, with an emphasis on quality, with all the experienced pilots can be beat by cheap planes with inexperienced pilots when you fill the sky with them. Power, maneuverability, firepower, are moot when the enemy can’t hide.
I'm a little confused by what you are trying to say. "...can be beat by cheap planes with inexperienced pilots...". What major country did we go against that had inexperienced pilots or cheap airplanes? Sure by the end of the war most of the axis powers had inexperienced pilots because most of their experienced pilots were dead.