1) Only 4 were sent to the ETO for testing, 2 found its way to England and the other two to Italy
2) The prototypes sent to Europe were soon grounded after one of the demontration pilots died in a crash while demonstrating the P-80 in England
3) The P-80 did not serve in any combat theater during World War II in squadron strength (refer to point #1)
4) The P-80 never fired its guns at an enemy combatant during World War II
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4) i only said fired its guns while ww2 was still going on over europe. i know it shot down nothing in ww2 and never even saw an enemy fight (cough cough meteor).
3) has not a night fight squadron consisted of a plane or two. (footnote night fighters of the pacific. some squadrons on cvs were as small as 2 plane because of lack of nightfight equipted planes). so a "jet fighter like the p-80 could at that time be a squadron with only 2 planes. im sure if you you found refs. the 4 that went to EU were part of a squadron.
2) they did fly be for that and thats still a flight.
1) see "3)"
0) if you saw the link you would know i was J/K
its just a gallery of p-80s and chicks from a web site AH put an add on last week. I really would only want to see the p-80 and the Meteor in the ww1 arena.
sorry i know this might not qualify for GD but who reads the Oclub.
