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Marine Rifleman
9/1/2008 11:22:01 PM
VCS-7 & Spitfire Mk Vbs
http://spitfiresite.com/history/articles/2008/01/spitfires-in-us-navy.htm
Spitfires of the US Navy
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Marine Rifleman
9/3/2008 7:21:34 PM
Trying again
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larryjcr
Navy Spitfires
9/30/2008 6:15:10 PM
Interesting piece. I'd read something about it, but much less detailed. By mid-'44 the RAF had converted their squadrons almost totally to MkVIIIs and IXs and so had a fair number of surplus Vs that could be put to such use.
At one point Bell actually built a prototype of a navalized P-39. It went nowhere for obvious reasons.
There was consideration of equiping Marine fighter squadrons with P-51s that went as far as a comparative flight test program between a P-51C and an F4U-1A. Results were that the Corsair was the better fighter unless you got above 25,000 ft, besides the better external bomb load, so that didn't go anywhere either.
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