Jerry W. Loper
Airman 1st Class
- 121
- Oct 2, 2007
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There may have been more, but I've only ever seen evidence of one P-47 Group of the 9th AF, removing some guns (from memory, I think two per side), and also removing the blast tubes from the remaining weapons, leaving the barrels exposed.
I have a picture of a P-47 modified with rocket launchers IN the wings.
US Navy moved a lot quicker than the US Army after the war even with much faster firing .50 cal guns coming in at the end of the war.
The P-47 only carried .50 cal guns and while there are many references to weights and loadings with 6 guns instead of 8 to lighten the plane up I don't know how common that was in the field.
Did Browning or the Ordinance Dept. ever try to scale up the M2 to 20mm?