1 Avro lancaster a beauty and a beast
2 mosquito recon bomber
3 sunderland bomber the plague of u boats
All great and all sadly left out of il2

b29 beat the b17 any day

b25 for the doolittle raid

the sbd truly amazing divebomber

the val i dont think it was a good plane it would just be special to fly one

Avro Lancaster
Shorts Stirling
http://www.anselm.edu/academic/histo...20Stirling.jpg

B26 Maurader gave the Japanese pilots fits. Fast and tough. A Zero had one pass to shoot it down after the drop or else it was GONE! Four of these bombers went through the same fighter/AA gauntlet at Midway as the Navy torpedo bombers did. The Navy was slaughtered. Almost 100% loss. The Marauders? All four made the drop. Two went down on the way out. Two made it back to Midway shot to hell. The B25 and B26 is all we had to throw at the Japs for a year, and they got the job done.

Mossie. Maybe the best twin engined combat aircraft ever built. And what a gorgeous looker. Watch the movie "633 Squadron" and you will be a believer also!!!!!

Thats a spanish CASA 2.111 ;)


Anyway the Mosquito is my best. I'll give the Wellington a mention too though.

B29. The beginning of a new generation of bomber. Pressurized. Controlled atmosphere. Radar controlled guns. Nuclear capable. FAST! Tough. Reliable. Groundbreaking technology in every respect. An unstoppable, devastating machine that is the picture of either victory or unfathomable devastation known round the world.

lancaster

Hmm... It's hard to say.

Britain= Halifax (Thought I'd throw in something different.)

France= Amiot 143 (France had some strange looking planes, and I love them for it.)

America= B-25 (Hard one but I chose it because my Grandfather who flew in the pacific trained in B-25s before the war, and a time after Pearl Harbor.

Germany= Ju-88 A-1 (Once again, thought I'd throw in something different.)

Italy= SM-84bis (Cool looking little Tri-engined bomber.)

USSR= Pe-8 (This was hard one, but only because Russia made some weird looking bombers, that I think are just so strange and cool.)

My dear obsolete GM4 Betty T-T
 

It may be obsolete, but that Ohka's dangerous!



OK, my list:

The Il2 (duh!) Best anti-tank plane before jets. (heck, it was the main inspiration for the A-10)

The A-26 Invader - You gotta love a 355 mph bomber that flew more like a fighter once it dropped its payload. The remote controlled turrets were neat too.

Ju-87 Stuka - yeah it's obsolete, but three words make all the difference:
Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

Yokosuka P1Y Ginga - the Betty's successor, used only a little but still a neat bomber.

The TBF/TBM Avenger - largest single engine carrier based plane of the war and a great torpedo bomber to boot.

Finally, the SBD Dauntless - I know other people have mentioned it already, but it was the first plane I thought of when I saw the title of the thread. It wasn't as fast as the later SB2C Helldiver, nor did it have the payload, but the SBD was a nimble little thing and pretty tough too.