Pick Your Own Air Force

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Well deradler since I could only pick 9 planes I picked the ones I thought would best for the role with the available planes.
The henschell 123 was a biplane and not fast enough later in the war. The P-51 wasnt used as a carrier plane but it could be converted ditto the junker 87
 
Excuse me I meant Hs-129 not 123. My mistake and typo. However the 87 would have been a lousy carrier bomber, and correct me if I am wrong but the Stuka carrying a torpedo? The Fi-167 was the German carrier based torpedo bomber.

The Ju 87D-4 designation was used for a number of Ju 87D-1 and Ju 87D-3 aircraft that were converted for use as a torpedo bomber. However, they were never used operationally, and were later converted back to the Ju 87D-3 standard.
 
Yeah just as we started discussing this I had been going to make a new list I had accindentaly put in the wrong list the one I posted was meant for the other topic
Heres my new list
B-17---HEAVY BOMBER, CONVOY ESCORT, LONGE RANGE BOMBER
B-26---MEDIUM BOMBER, MARITIME BOMBER,LONGE RANGE BOMB
JUNKER 52 ---TRANSPORT
AT6 -----TRAINER
DH-98 MOSQUITO---MANY ROLES MAINLY FIGHTER BOMBER
D7A3 RYUSEI---- DIVE/CARRIER/TORPEDOE BOMBER
P-51---------LONGE RANGE ESCORT/DAY INTERCEPTOR
F4U CORSAIR ----CARRIER FIGHTER ( ALTHOUGH IT COULD BE USED FOR GROUND FIGHTER)
MESSERSCHMITT 410 ----INTERCEPTOR
Well thats my revised list :D
 
What was wrong with the B-17 :?: It had better armament than the lancaster. Also what is wrong with only one heavy bomber :?: I think that the B-26 was good medium bomber too.
Just tell me whats wrong with my choices and I will think it over :)
 
Well the only problem Lanc has with the B-17 is the fact that it is not British and most of all not a Lancaster which for him is the best thing since Bread and Butter. :D I think it is a fine choice. I would have chosen the B-29 or B-24 over the B-17 because they both could carry more bomb load however the B-17 is a fine choice.
 
No I would classify it as a Heavy Bomber however it sacrificed some bomb payload for other things like armor, and defensive weapons.
 
yes whilst it wasn't unheard for them to carry 2000-4000lbs of bombs to berlin, her absolute maximum payload means she's a heavy, as does the fact that she has four engines to a cirtain extent............
 

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