Erkki
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Fighter sweeps on airfields, dont set the last waypoint on the airfield, but some distance away, and set the "patrol point" over the AF. Thanks to a bug in game, your fighters will not take damage from flak if they fly high enough, but will still shoot down about 50% of the landing planes while they can still dogfight effectively as ever, they will not lose altitude.
In the beginning, the Luftwaffe has huge stocks of 109 G-6. If you keep downing around 50 planes a day and they are not 80%+ 109G-6, the AI will not run out of them. Other planes, yes... The German war production is able to produce around 80 aircraft a day even with some factories bombed down. If they keeps losing planes at that rate, very soon they will have mainly the G-6s against you, and they are target drones against anything that isnt a P-40, P-38H or Spitfire V at high alts. You can afford losing more aircraft than the Germans, especially if those extra losses to you also raise the losses unsustainable for the Jerries. In practice, its impossible for Allies to run out of capable planes let alone the less able, but you might get issues with pilot numbers and morale should you sustain heavy losses. For example, you will receive around 30 4-engined daylight bombers(B-17s and B-24s) a day - do you think the Germans can shoot down that much? 
P-38J and especially L have a very good range too, P-38L better than P-51B. Check the weapons database. Endurance is the time they can fly in minutes(uninterrupted), range is the range they can fly back and forth. P-40 is very short legged compared to just about anything you have.
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