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What if the 9th Air Force in England adopted the use of twin engine gunships being used in Pacific on larger scale starting with the air offensive in the spring of 1944.
Some PODs would be:
- More B-26 and A-20 Marauders already in England are converted into solid nose gunships. There are experiments with stripping the bombers of their waist/tail guns to make them faster and lighter.
-Deployment of the A-26 is pushed up to early 1944 rather than September as in the OTL. Perhaps the A-26 becomes a twin seat bomber as in the Korean War era earlier
-according to Wikipedia when the P-61 Black widow arrived in England some USAAF generals thought it was too slow. What if the Black Widow makes a name for itself on night time attack missions first before impressing the brass as a night fighter.
-And of course some B25G/H added to the mix.
What I envision is the up-gunned twin engine bombers shooting up German airfields/trucks/trains prior to D-day in France/Belgium/Holland with the P-47s while the Mustangs concentrate on deep penetration missions over Germany.
Now the challenge is get Air Force brass in England to use tactics from the Pacific.