So now Freeman is liar when it suits you.
Where do you see that??
My God, you’re jumping off the deep end. If your going to put in your signature about reading my post’s, please do that.
This is what, the third time in this thread you have jumped on your misconceptions of my post.
Widewing,
The facts are the P47M's problems were not solved until April, 1945.
Both Widewing’s and O'Leary's findings show this to be true.
How much combat it saw after that is debatable.
Just as I said:
The operational dates are conflicting. Most have Republic developing semi-reliable fixes in April 1945. Many sources say the type never saw combat while others claim it conducted unopposed armed recons the last two days of the war.
From my very first post written on the subject. I would have written that some claim the Type was in combat from the day it arrived in Europe and is responsible for single handily destroying the Luftwaffe if that was the case. Widewings site was included to show the range of claims.
What is everyone so afraid of that they do not even read my post?
If the P47M saw significant amounts of combat and you have the proof....
Why didn't you just say so and present it in your article?
This is the only reference to combat service for the P47M in the article I can find:
The new M models also suffered a fair amount of teething troubles. The C series engines suffered from high altitude ignition leaks and burned pistons. The 56th kept many of their older D models until the new M had its bugs corrected. Nonetheless, once sorted out, the P-47M was the fastest propeller driven fighter to see combat service in any Air Force in the ETO. Capable of speeds up to 475 mph, the M was a true "hotrod".
http://www.cradleofaviation.org/history/aircraft/p-47/7.htmlThat statement, BTW, is only true at certain altitudes. Most of the late war fighters were equal or faster to the P47M at lower altitudes.
The vaunted 350 hours endurance test is not all that remarkable either. It was good but is the only engine I know of even tested that long. Most tests simply concluded earlier with no damage at all. In many cases these engines were installed on aircraft and flown even more!
Not run on a bench until they were useless and tossed in the garbage.
All the best,
Crumpp
