RE: which country had the best fighter planes of WWII
The Ta 152H featured one MK 108 30mm cannon and two MG 151/20 20 mm cannons. That just a bit more lead as the 6 combined M-2 .50's did on the P-51, not to mention one MK 108 round (especially Minengeschoß rounds) would take down just about any Allied fighter in one shot.
The Ta 152 was faster, had longer legs, had better armament and better manuverability than the P-51D or the late war Spitties.
The B-17's typical combat altitude for bomb dropping was 20k-30k feet, putting it right where the Ta 152 performed best, meaning it was a SERIOUS probelem for Allied fighters. The Ta 152 had the OPTION to fight or run, something the P-51s escorting the B-17's didn't have.
ANYONE who claims it was the Brits or the Yanks or the Russians, or the French that won the war, best think again. It was the Allies that won the war. Each Allied nation provided too many young men that sacrificed everything to defent the world from a tyrannical madman. To say it was the US or the UK or the USSR that saved us all from the German war machine is very much mistaken. Every nation, allied and axis had its shining moments, from the BoB, to the Ardennes Forest, the inital German invasion of Russia, the initial successes of the Japanese forces... every country had its horrors as well. ANYONE taking the claim of "We won the war" is foolish and is simply not savy enough about the war to speak on it.
The Mossie, while a good plane, wasn't a fighter. It was a high speed, light bomber, recce aircraft and night fighter. In reality the Mossie was no faster than the Fw 190A or the Bf 109F/G... it was the altitude that the Mossie was flying that speed at that gave it the advantage. Lets not forget, without Canada, the Mossie wouldn't have done much of anything.
And Whittle didn't invent the Jet Engine on his own, you forget that the invention is shared with Hans von Ohain. The Brits didn't put the Concorde on the air on its own either, that was done in conjunction with the French.
The P-51A and A-36 were not crap. Even while Allison powered the P-51A was NOTABLY faster than the best Spitfire at the time, even though the Spitfire at the time was Merlin powered... oh and it had more than twice the combat radius too. Funny that the "crappy" version of the P-51 still got almost 700 orders from the Brits...