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Re: Natural metal Spitfires.
hello
little bit off the topic, but IIRC in British Pacific Fleet on at least some carriers they concluded that Seafire's .303 mgs were rather useless and removed them. After a while they got a message from Admiralty that the Lordship had noticed that there had not been any expenditure of .303 ammo on those carriers and reminded that per HM regulations those mgs were part of Seafire's armament and so should be reinstalled immediately. On the carriers men solved the problem by dumping some of the .303 ammo overboard so that the expenditure of .303 ammo was on the right proportion to 20mm ammo expenditure and so all were happy. Usually the front line troops were capable to adjust to the situation and did the things as they saw best even if the higher HQs were sometimes out of touch to battlefield realities. At least that was usually case in the Finnish Armed Forces which tended to be not so well disciplined.
Juha
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