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Re: Australian Spitfires
Graham
Why don't you answer the questions?
1. Do you know when Type 100 recce a/c began flying missions over Australia? If not, why do you assume previous fighters had a chance to engage them and failed? What role might weather have played in success or failure over Darwin or elsewhere? Do you know what success other types had against the Type 100 in other areas? What basis for comparison do you have?
2. What change in tactics? Do you mean fighter sweeps? As in early March, early May (Millingimbi), 22 June etc., prior to Sept 43?
3. Do you know if Japanese bombers engaged in night raids prior to the arrival of the Spitfires? If they did, do you somehow ascribe that also to the Spitfires? (hint check ops for Nov 42-Jan 43)
4. Could you possibly imagine that the strategic position in the Pacific was undergoing dramatic changes initiated with the Allied offensive in the SW Pacific that started on 30 June 43 and that Darwin was very much a back water in these strategic events?
Since you don't seem to accept my answers on these sorts of questions, I leave them to you as areas of potentially fruitful inquiry.
RLD
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