Fabric Covered Control Surfaces

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I was at POF over the weekend and Fighter Rebuilders was servicing a P-38L. All the control surfaces were aluminum, so there is one...
I wonder if the earlier models had all aluminum control surfaces?
 
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Dash119 said:
I was at POF over the weekend and Fighter Rebuilders was servicing a servicing a P-38L. All the control surfaces were aluminum, so there is one...
I wonder if the earlier models had all aluminum control surfaces?
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I checked some of my books and reference materials and as far as I could see they were. It looks like the XP-38 did not have a rudder trim
 
So I guess the modified question is; Other than the P-38 were there any WWII aircraft which did not have at least one fabric covered control surface?

This also raises a new question; Why did Lockheed break with what appears to be universal practice at the time, and elect not to use any fabric on the control surfaces?
 
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