WW2 Planes & Aviators

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Across
  1. 2. American long-range fighter plane, the P-51, used in European and Pacific theaters.
  2. 3. Term for a single mission or flight by a military aircraft.
  3. 4. Early U.S. Navy carrier fighter that held its own against the Japanese Zero.
  4. 5. Famous African-American fighter pilot group known as the "Red Tails."
  5. 7. German machine for encrypted communication, famously cracked by Allied codebreakers.
  6. 9. Carrier-based fighter flown by the U.S. Navy and Marines, known for its gull-wing design.
  7. 11. Luftwaffe ace with over 100 aerial victories, later a general.
  8. 12. British fighter plane critical to victory in the Battle of Britain.
Down
  1. 1. Japanese suicide pilots who targeted Allied ships in the Pacific theater.
  2. 6. First major Allied offensive in the Pacific, fought from 1942 to 1943.
  3. 8. Iconic Japanese fighter plane used in the Pacific theater.
  4. 10. Codename for the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944.