Charles Greenhill v. Richard Vartanian

Easterbrook, Circuit Judge.

Hermann Göring, head of the Luftwaffe in World War II, remarked: "When I saw those Mustangs over Berlin, I knew that the war was lost." The P-51 Mustang fighter entered service in January 1942, and long-range variants introduced late in 1943 could escort Allied bombers to Germany and back. (With external fuel tanks, they had a range exceeding 1,600 miles.) More than 15,500 Mustangs were built; the plane served as this nation's main fighter until jets succeeded it during the Korean War. Some Mustangs remained in military use in other nations until 1984. The picture…