1930s-40s AHC: cancel 3 combat A/Cs, replace with good stuff

Each Me-110 was twice the size/mass of Me-109 with two crew and two engines.....so exchange two Me-109 for every Me-110. This forces the Ju-88 to be completed in the fighter/Schnellbomber model. I gather it could manage 340 mph clean , but it could not carry as much as historical Ju-88. I guess next step would be improve He-111 two fill medium bomber, any ideas?
 
Cancel: B-18, B-23 and B-26.
While it would be too late to cancel the B-18 prior to prototype stage, the performance of the Boeing 299 was so clearly superior to the Douglas DB-1 and Martin 146 competitors, the 1935 competition should have been cancelled when the Boeing entrant crashed due to human error (take off with control surfaces still locked). The B-18 was a dog from the start, with performance little better than the Martin B-10 it was to replace. The dissatisfied Air Corps wasted their money by trying to field an "improved" B-18, the B-23. If more resources could have been made available in the late '30s, there could have been more B-17 E and F models in service at the start of America's entry into the war. Another possibility might be the development of the B-38, an Allison V-1710 powered B-17, with roughly a 40 mph increase in top and cruising speeds and a whopping 1300 mile increase in range, to 3300 mi according to Wiki!

As for the B-26, it was envisioned to be a high speed medium bomber, but it's actual performance wasn't any better than the already adopted B-25 that operated with much less HP and was easier to fly. Rather than the B-26, it's too bad the USAAF didn't go for the B-28. At 370 MPH it would really have been a high speed medium bomber.
 
Each Me-110 was twice the size/mass of Me-109 with two crew and two engines.....so exchange two Me-109 for every Me-110. This forces the Ju-88 to be completed in the fighter/Schnellbomber model. I gather it could manage 340 mph clean , but it could not carry as much as historical Ju-88. I guess next step would be improve He-111 two fill medium bomber, any ideas?

He 111 was, along with Welligton, perhaps the best strategic (if 2-engined) bomber before 4-engined bombers entered service. What it needed was proper escort force, hence my suggestion of the Bf 109 + drop tank instead of the Bf 110 production.
 
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