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Originally Posted by Stig Jarlevik
Felix
If you refer to the Korean war, then you have the USAF and not the USAAF to consider.
Cheers
Stig
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It is interesting, that the AT-6 designation which most of us understand as the Attack Trainer (Attack, modified use) (Trainer - primary use) - didn't really become formalized until 1962.
See internet paper - linked:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304...us/system.html
The Texan/Mosquitos in Korea were generally referred to as Mosquitos, Texans or T-6s.
I wonder if these armed T-6s would have had better success against the Po-2/Yak-11 Bed-pan-Charlie attacks. Perhaps the RAAF should have offered some ready-armed Wirraway OTU-trainers. (Wirraway, based on NA-16 trainer - think T-6 with about 200-hp extra.)***
***correcting myself here:
Original NA-16s had either PW Wasp R1340 (550hp) or Wright Whirlwind R975 (420hp). Most early T-6s, SNJs and Harvards R1340s of around 550hp. Wirraways equipped with slightly more powerful R1340 version of 600hp.
The French (and I think, later Portuguese) Texan armed counter-insurgency light-attack aircraft had a T-6G designation. Though, the Portuguese reportedly also used ex-Luftwaffe Harvard IVs (ex-ex-RAF perhaps) in a modified armed capacity.
Interesting points and artwork in this internet source on Portuguese T-6s:
http://worldatwar.net/chandelle/v3/v3n2/portcoin.html
(Not had a chance to verify against T-6 or Portuguese Angola/Mozambique books, so make what you will of that information.)
...geoff