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A bit of a challenge then.
Show me a picture of a F6F-5 (WWII Era, no post war stuff) that has the 20mm's and doesn't have the radar unit on the wing.
Their very well may have been late production day fighters with the 20mm's, but they were definitely the minority and rare. Not the norm.
The Navy was the leaders of the different US Military Branchs, when it came to conversion to 20mm's over .50's. In fact if you read the minutes of the Joint Fighter Conference in late 1944 (I'm just now reading this excellent book), it will talk about that in great detail. But it also says that the first Navy day fighters to mount 20mm's and see introduction into combat were the F4U-1C's. And only 150 of them ever made it into service before the war ended.
Look at your own source guys
While the four cannon configuration didn't go into production a two cannon, and four gun armament could be fitted to later production F6F's and was carried by many F6F-5N's.
Which means that while the F6F-5's could have 20mm, it was many of the -5N's that did carry them.
It also says that the 20mm prototype didn't even fly until April 1944, so extrapolate that out to production versions, and how many of the total production could even have potentially carried the 20mm cannon version.
Don't get me wrong guys. In AH I would like to see the 20mm's as one of the armament options. Just dont' fool yourselves into thinking that there were very many of them (other than the Nightfighters) that saw service in the war.
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