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So, in hindsight De Havilland Vampire was probably the best of first generation jets, and it was a beauty. It also had good range and fairly good armament. It also was a very adaptable aircraft with night fighter and carrier variants.

Could we have tweaks, with it could we get it into widescale service by 1943-1944, maybe even to US license production resulting it becoming the iconic Allied fighter of late war period? As Luftwaffe was toast anyway, the most significant effect would be slightly even more distorted kill ratio, and maybe slightly lower Kamikaze casualties. Of course the post-war jet evolution would be even faster.
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