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I don't think you do know about the 'conflict' that was happening between the ground and air contingents of the USAAF during WW2.

Certainly Graham, for how else was air superiority over the battlefield achieved. The RAF didn't need to have long range fighters as the USAAF was over the Reich. Some people have trouble seeing the forest for the trees.

Btw tcolvin, if it was not for the Brits, and the Merlin, there would have been no P-51s doing long range escorting. And then it was only by accident since the P-51 sat at Wright-Patterson for months until the USN had to do some tests and asked why this a/c was sitting around. The 'failed fighter', the P-47, and the troubled P-38, would have had to do the long range escorting.

Others have commented on your myoptic tunnel vision in your post, so I won't.

You rag on and on about Flak doing so much damage to Brit FBs, yet totally ignore what Flak would do to your super duper dive bombers. Your super duper Vengeance in SEA did not have the opposition, ground and air, that was in NWE.