[RodM]

Hi Rick,

while not disputing the plan, as Jim points out, what follows is a big "If". There would be no guarrantee, even if a force of Hudsons or otherwise was available, that they would've been effective. How much training would US crews have needed just to navigate effectively in an area that they weren't familar with (the RAF and then the USAAF found this problem over Europe and it took some time to sort out)? What sort of Japanese defences would such aircraft had encountered? My first thought is that while such a force may've inflicted some losses, it probably wouldn't have changed the initial outcome of the Japanese campaign and, like other Allied air units at that time, faced annihilation....

Cheers

Rod