Placing the Bell P39 Aircobra.

[tcolvin]

Originally Posted by RodM

While many refutations, based on evidence, have been presented in these threads to counter the evidentual basis of your claims, most remain conveniently unanswered, while the same claims continue to be made...

I have seen only one refutation - Shores' statement that the P-39 was used by the Soviets for ground attack. I won't make that mistake again. And questions about Clostermann's reliability; things like that whcih I have taken onboard. Thanks.

Otherwise I have bene hearing the same statements - such as a Vengeance with a crew of two would suffer twice the aircrew losses of a Typhoon. Someone saying that does not understand the CAS environment, where specific threats have to be answered by a specific weapon, and these need coordinating in all-arms.

For the rest, you believe 2TAF supplied effective CAS, RPs were good enough, and 2TAF was better than nothing.

I think fatigue has taken over. But its always interesting to discuss these matters, although its unpleasant to be compared with David Irving.