The Wildcat was the star of the Battle of Midway, which marked the decline of Japan as a powerful opponent at sea. The Grumman Hellcat served mainly in the Pacific theater, where it was responsible for three out of every four dogfight victories. The Corsair achieved an average kill ratio of better than ten to one. The Corsair was a carrier-launched fighter and light bomber that the British Royal Navy, United States Navy and Marine Corps deployed in both the Pacific and European arenas of the war. The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang, the Grumman F6F Hellcat, and the Chance Vought F4U-4 Corsair were the top American fighter planes of the war. The United States Navy and Army Air Force relied on a combination of bombers, fighters and fighter-bombers during World War II.
The most famous aircraft of World War II include the B-29 and the P-51 Mustang from the United States, Great Britain’s Supermarine Spitfire, the Japanese A6M Zero, the German FW-190 and BF-109, and the Russian tank killer, the Ilyushin-2 Shturmovik. It was during World War II that the concept of air superiority also evolved, in which nations sought dominance by controlling the skies. Strategic bombing and firebombing of civilian cities evolved during this period, and the first two and only nuclear attacks in history were carried out by World War II-era bomber aircraft. The war also saw the dawn of primitive jet fighters, such as the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star which never saw combat, and the infamous German ME-262, which scored over 500 kills against Allied forces. It marked the final decline and disappearance of biplanes in combat, and the rise of the monoplane design which is still used today. World War II, which ranged from 1939 to 1945, saw major evolutionary landmarks in warplane design.
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