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Re: Vengeance vs Typhoon, and associated matters
1. The specification that led to the Avro Manchester required a dive-bombing capability (remember that next time we deride the He-177).
2. The world could use a study of the USAAC/USAAF relationship with divebombing, which ranged from scorn to frantic embrace (orders of large numbers of A-24/A-25/A-31 etc.) to limited operational use (A-24s throughout the Pacific in 42-43, Kenney ordering A-31s out of Fifth Air Force, successful use of the few A-36s in the MTO and CBI in 43).
3. The issue of keeping the aircraft out of the fragmentation range of bomb was also key and became more so as you moved to lower drag aircraft and those without dedicated dive brakes. The USN and USMC in particular lost a fair number of WW2 veterans this way in Korea.
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