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Originally Posted by recycled sixtie View Post
I believe the Mustang had the same engine. Both the Mustang and Spitfire were very beautiful but the later Mustangs with the extended range to accompany the bombers were a huge breakthrough in WW2. If ever I had a choice of eras to live in WW2 would be up there. What an exciting time to experience but pretty dangerous.....
The Mustang got the Merlin because the British had the idea and made the swap! Replaced the weaker Allison and thus the P-51B was born.

See: Mustang X: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_P-51_variants
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