Placing the Bell P39 Aircobra.

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There is no way the Typhoon did a perpendicular dive.

The Spitfire did dive bombing but the dive angle was 60* max and was considered a vertical dive.

Lallemont only commanded 609 from sometime in Aug to sometime in Sept 1944.

On Aug 8 the Americans called on the Typhoons to attack a small wood near the village of Le Theil. Seven double stacked Typhoons of 197 blasted the wood to pieces. Captured Germans, that survived, were eager to surrender.

So, did the USAAF, and the Soviets, also make an irretrievable error in not having dive bombers in Europe?