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Re: Why the USAAF gave up on the A-36 in favour of the P-47.
Hello Tony
I'm pretty sure that there are some good secondary sources on the subject and anyway living a couple thousands kilometers from Kew digging archives for a such vast subject is beyond my means. I have limited my RAF studies on certain stations and sqns. And your quotes were from books which I have not read before so You gave me some new info, thanks for that!
Juha
BTW in Aug 42 205 Group, the Group which controlled Wimpy bombers in NA had 140 Wimpys, which agree with info that in late 41 the TOE of NA sqns was raised to 18 "initial equipment" a/c plus 7 more held in immediate reserve. On the other hand the first line strenght of BC was very low in May 42, only 417 bombers, but began raise soon afterwards. The heavy bomber units in NA were weaker than the othe sqns there, only 26 Halis and 25 Libs arrived during the summer 42, 4 Libs had arrived already in Jan 42. Plus 23 B-24Ds of HALPRO, but it lost some of its planes during its attack on Ploesti before it was committed against NA targets.
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