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Originally Posted by Juha
IIRC IID only had the option of two 40 mm Vickers S guns besides the two 7.7 mm Brownings. Mk. IV had Universal wing which allow it carrying either S guns or rockets or bombs or drop-tanks. Some even flew with one S gun and 4 rockets. I doubt that Mk. IV with steel rocket rails was a potent fighter, even clean Mk IIBs or Cs were not very potent fighters against contempory German or Japanese fighters.
I am neither but at least some squadron tallies are around, at least that of 6 Sqn (MTO) and 20 Sqn (Burma).
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Yes, indeed. I do not remember the article in detail, but the general conclusion was that RP Typhoon did much more sense on ETO. I guess that cannon armed aircraft stood little chance against both fighters and flak, and it was not so easy to get a proper aim in Normandy like landscape.