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World War II: March 2000 From the EditorWorld War II Archives | 0 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post The first U.S. jet aircraft was the Bell P-59 Airacomet, whose development began in 1941. Although the P-59 was never used in combat, it did facilitate the development of the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, the first American jet fighter. It was during a test flight of the P-80 that Richard Bong, the highest-scoring U.S. fighter pilot in history, lost his life. The first operational Soviet jet fighter, the Yakovlev Yak-15, flew for the first time in 1946. Subscribe Today
While research into the development of jet aircraft was already underway at the outbreak of World War II, the conflict served to quicken the pace of technological progress as nothing else could have. Michael E. Haskew, Editor, World War II Pages: 1 2 Help HistoryNet by bookmarking to
           
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