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Re: Why the USAAF gave up on the A-36 in favour of the P-47.
Hi, Juha, but it's a question of timing, and we've been discussing 1945, not mid-1944.
Page 532 (Vol III) of Shores & Thomas states that 'Superfighters' (Tempests and Spitfire XIV) replaced Mustang III in 122 Wing and Spitfire IX in 125 Wing already at the end of September 1944 under impact of the Me-262. By January 1945, they state that the Tempests 'had begun to find their form against the latest FW-190D and Bf-109K'.
2TAF were therefore clear about the equipment needed for air superiority in 1945, and it wasn't the Spitfire IX/XVI which was relegated to fighter-bombing, as Clostermann stated.
Tony
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