blown 87

For me, the best sounding WW2 airplane has got to be a Fury or a Sea Fury with the Bristol Sleeve valve engine.
What a simple concept that had to be utter hell to make work.
Second on the list is any Merlin or Allison V-12.
Followed by the big American Radials.

On the smaller engines, I am not sure what Beechcraft does to make the airplanes sound like they do, but they are like a Ford mustang with a V8, you know it when you hear it and it sounds great.

M. Requin

My first flight in an aircraft was right after the war, my dad and an ex-Marine pilot bout an AT-6, and when I was 4 I got a ride over northern Virginia in it. I can still vividly remember looking out over Virginia woods from the cockpit!

blown 87

When I was still flying a lot I used to take folks up that had never been and to a person all of them were shocked at how much of Georgia is wooded.
For the most part, not a good place to loose a engine.