Long Range Heavy/Medium/Light Bombers

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Originally Posted by mondogenerator

They used P51's in the pacific but P47D's and N's were more numerous.

Do you have any numbers to support that?

IIRC Saipan, and Ie Shima, had mostly P-47 squadrons while Iwo Jima had mostly P-51 squadrons. Both were stationed on Okinawa.

CBI got most of the Allison engined P-51A's and the P-47 arrived in April of 1944.

Here's links that I have

P-47 in PTO: http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p47_15.html