AT-6 Texan in attack role in USAAF colors?

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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

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