Kevin J
Banned
Once again, this is not valid comparison. There is no way of knowing whether P-40F/L would manage to achieve 260 victories in the ETO, deployed in the same numbers and flying the same missions as the Typhoon, and vice versa.
Not all sources agree that 592 is the number of victories scored by USAAF P-40's in the MTO; it is the highest number being bantied about. However, whatever number of victories they got, they were shared by 16 squadrons.
I don't know how many Typhoon squadrons shared the 260 victories?
IIRC by 1943, when the Typhoon squadrons were split between ADGB and 2nd TAF, there were 9 squadrons for Air Defence and 18 for ground attack. The P-40F/L would certainly not be flying the same missions as the Typhoon, but the missions assigned to the Spitfire Vc. I certainly wouldn't want to use them for Air Defence as they're slow climbing. Like in the MTO, I'd want to use them in an Air Superiority role.