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Originally Posted by Soviet Ace
Unless your fighting at a fairly high altitude, and are not in a turn and burn dogfight; the P47 was chewed up. Me-109's whether it be a "F" or a "G" model, the P47 was given a good work over. Now if your flying a Me-109G6, then it's more of an even match since both planes are heavily weighed down, and aren't very turn and burn. But against the faster more nimble 109's the P47 was worked over.
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Kill/Loss records from both the Luftwaffe and USAF would disagree with your opinion
The P47 was by far the safest combat aircraft of the war. Its loss rate to enemy aircraft is quite ridiculously low!
Thats a completely inaccurate blanket statement. The performance differences between say a G2 and G14 were extreme and the F2/4 model was outclassed completely by 1944. And by then P47's were using 150 grade fuel which gave a major performance boost at low and medium altitude and gave them a similar top speed and acceleration to match 109's used at that point like the G10 at any altitude. The 190 was more of a threat...as JG2 and JG26 were both equipped with them and very few 109's and met much of the initial threat posed by aircraft from the UK in 43/44.
You need to stop watching history channel and read some combat reports and some books based on official records.