North American Mustang Mk IV Main Battle Tank

North American Mustang Mk IV Main Battle TankThe North American P 51 Mustang is one of the most iconic American fighters of the Second World War. Designed to fulfil an RAF specification, the Mustang was transformed once the Rolls Royce Merlin was installed. The P 51D models long range and excellent firepower made it a superb escort fighter, able to protect the bombers all the way to Berlin and back. The P 51 is recorded as being the top scoring Allied fighter of the war with 4,950 enemy aircraft

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303 machine gun operated by the pilot and a single Lewis gun mounted in the manually traversed dorsal turret

Steel balls to balance the aircraft's nose

with no less than 18 machine guns and an array of other offensive weaponry

The Mark Vc variant of the Spitfire may have been an interim development of Britain's famous fighter

the GR9A represents a substantial leap forward in capability over the older GR7 Harriers

is the best known of all the American vehicles of the Second World War

an attack aircraft and a light bomber

American stars also marked British aircraft at the time

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With a shallow draught and full-width bow ramp it was able to offload its cargo and leave the beach in just 3 to 4 minutes

The second stage of modernisation was to improve firepower by increasing the number of machine guns to twelve