It was the P-47 that won the air war in Europe not the Mustang. The Mustang just got the credit. I used to fish with a guy who flew Jugs in the war and he used to tell me the storys. Much of the Luftwaffe attrition was done with ground attacks. The Jug was also a terror to German rail traffic, a fact you dont hear to often nowdays. That the German war machine was heavily Dependant on rail traffic.
I was in a LA-7 the other day and ran into Sir Loin who was in a Jug, and who had like 5k on me. He repeatedly B&Z'd me and no matter what I did I could take him away from his strategy and I couldn't slow him down or get an "E" advantage. Eventually he got me and it really showed what a good Jug stick can do.
The P-47 is a great plane, it was in real life and it is in the game. The real reason I'm not in it as much is cause I dive bomb a lot and I get tired of the inevitable hole in the main fuel tank. If they ever fix the damage model I'll spend more time in the Jug.
Seeing one of those heavily armed monsters, with all the MGs, rockets, and bombs, screaming at you must have been a frightening experience.