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Defending The Reich 1944-45: Aircraft

 

 

 

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USAAF

 

 

Lockhead P-38 Lightning
Probably the most distinctive front-line single-seat fighter of the war. It was designed in the late 1930s as a high-altitude high-speed interceptor, hence the resort to twin engines. The engine superchargers and radiators necessitated a twin boom configuration allowing the cockpit section to be quite spacious and very well equipped. It meant the single 20mm cannon and four 0.5" machineguns were concentrated along the aircraft's boresight (straight ahead and not angled to a single concentration point like wing-mounted guns).

The Lightening was surprisingly manoeuvrable for such a large
plane. Heavy fighter losses in the Mediterranean and Pacific theatres meant that the majority of P-38s ended up there rather than in the west, but those that served over France and Germany were put to a variety of tasks from ground attack, reconnaissance and, before the advent of the Mustang, as the main bomber escort.
ISA260a

 

Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
With war breaking out in Europe the USAAC (as the American air arm was designated at the time) issued a requirement for a fighter of exceptional performance and payload. Designers at Republic realised that the only engine currently available that could meet these requirements was the massive 2,000hp Pratt & Whitney radial engine being fitted to medium bombers. The addition of a big turbosupercharger meant that the resulting P-47 Thunderbolt was the largest single-seat fighter produced up to that point. However, even though it was twice as heavy as other fighters its powerful engine gave it a top speed of more than 400 mph and enabled it to be fitted with eight 0.5" machineguns.

By the start of 1943 the improved P-47C reached England, many units swapping it for the Spitfire Mk.Vs they had been allocated on arrival in Britain. It had good overall performance and though the size of the 'Jug' meant it was not the nimblest of fighters, especially at low level, it did confer on it tremendous speed in a dive and meant it was able to take a lot of punishment. The definitive model, of which more were produced than any other US fighter sub-type, was the P-47D fitted with a Hawker Typhoon bubble canopy. This first appeared in early 1944. By then the P-51 had taken over the escort role as the P-47 was not able to chaperone the bombers on the deep penetration raids now being performed, and the Thunderbolt was instead used mainly in the ground attack role.
ISA284a & b

 

North American P-51 Mustang
At the start of the war the British asked the North American Aviation company if they could build the Curtis P-40 under licence for the RAF. NAA's president boldly stated that they could build a much better plane than that; and they did.

The keys to the design were exceptionally clean aerodynamics and massive fuel capacity. The original engine had limited high-altitude performance so the RAF generally used the Mustang as a ground attacker. When fitted with the same Merlin engine as the Spitfire and British designed bubble canopy the P-51 Mustang proved to be one of the best fighters of WW2 and near the apogee of performance for a piston-engine aircraft. However, issues with the engine and a propensity for gun jams (due to the thin wing forcing the guns to be fitted at an angle to fit) meant it wasn't ready for high-altitude combat with the USAAF until the P-51D arrived in spring 1944.

The Mustang's prodigious range meant it could escort the bombers all the way with fuel to spare. By the end of 1944 fourteen of the fifteen 8th Air Force Fighter Groups operated P-51s.

The Mustang was armed with six 0.5" MGs. Over 15,000 were built and they accounted for more enemy aircraft than any other type in the Allied inventory.
ISA283b & c (ISA283 & 283a in RAF service)


Douglas A-26 Invader

Designed as the successor to the effective A-20 Havoc (called Boston in RAF service and still in limited use in 1944-45). The A-26 was powered by the same radial engine as the B-25, B-26 and P-47 and was the fastest American bomber of the war.

Built in various configurations as either a light bomber or dedicated ground attacker for taking on enemy armour and other point targets the A-26 could be armed with as many as a devastating fourteen fixed 0.5" machineguns firing forwards. Defensive armament consisted of two twin 0.5" remote control turrets operated by a single gunner. It could also be armed with rockets, or when operating as a light bomber up to 5,000lbs of bombs.

It first saw action over France in the autumn of 1944 and was such a successful design that it served in Korea and Vietnam, under the new designation of B-26, and is the only American bomber to see combat in three major wars.
ISA294

Martin B-26 Marauder
Martin's 1939 proposal for a fast medium bomber was considered so superior that the Airforce submitted an order before any prototypes had been built. Though it ended the war with the lowest loss rate per sortie of any USAAF aircraft its sleek design, slim wings and powerful twin engines (the same as on the A-26, B-25 and P-47) came at the expense of tricky low speed handling leading to many accidents for the novice pilots being churned out of American pilot schools.

Arriving in Britain in 1943, heavy losses on conventional bombing raids soon saw it switched to direct support for the invasion of France using medium altitude bombing.
Armed with twin 0.5" dorsal and tail turrets and a further three flexible and four forward fixed machineguns. Maximum bomb load was 4,000lbs.
ISA264

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
The strategic bomber of the late 1930s was seen at the time in the same vein as the modern nuclear missile; a deterrent that could rain unstoppable mass death and destruction on anyone brave (or stupid) enough to take you on. To fulfill this prophecy a long range multi-engine bomber was requested, able to deliver a ton of bombs 2,000 miles at a speed equal to current fighters.

Boeing, desperate for orders, poured all their resources into a design based on their all-metal commercial airliner. The new plane more than fulfilled the requirements but after several setbacks, including a couple of crashes, the USAAC decided to cancel the order. To prove the design Boeing instigated a series of high profile record breaking flights and the order was reinstated with the first B-17s entering service in 1939.

The first 8th AF Fortresses arrived in England in August 1942 and daylight operations against targets in Europe began soon after. Unescorted raids showed that even the best armed and armoured bombers were no match for defending fighters and it wasn't until the advent of the P-51D escort that the B-17 really showed its prowess.

It was an immensely sturdy bomber with a heavy defensive armament. Long-ranged and stable in flight, the latter allowing B-17 units to fly in compact hard to penetrate box formations. The B-17's only drawback was a relatively light bomb load of 4,500lbs for distance raids on Germany.

The last two years of war saw the final version of the Flying Fortress operating in Europe, the B-17G. This introduced the chin turret as a direct counter to enemy head-on attacks, and an improved tail gunner position. By then the B-17 was probably the bomber with the heaviest defensive armament of the war bristling with thirteen 0.5" machineguns. In he Second World War the Flying Fortress delivered more bombs that any other US plane.
ISA280b

Consolidated B-24 Liberator
As the B-17 was about to go into production Consolidated was asked to build Flying Fortresses under license. They instead decided to come up with their own design, using a low drag shoulder mounted high aspect wing (i.e. long and narrow) which would produce longer range and allow the fitting of a bomb bay twice as large as the B-17, though in practice the usual operational bomb load was nearer that of the B-17 so as not to degrade range and speed.

In the campaign against occupied Europe the B-24 had equal billing with the B-17, though most crew would have preferred the tougher Flying Fortress over the 'flying boxcar' which they considered less robust and more arduous to fly, especially in formation. The USAAF however, valued the larger bomb load and versatility of the Liberator.

The definitive B-24J was armed with ten 0.5" machineguns in four twin turrets plus two waist guns. Some 19,000 Liberators were produced during the war, more than any other US aircraft.
ISA281b

 

 

 

RAF

 

 

Vickers-Supermarine Spitfire Mk. XIV

In the early 1930s Reginald Mitchell had proposed a monoplane fighter based on Supermarine's experience in winning the Schneider Trophy for seaplanes. Designed to a somewhat unadventurous Air Ministry specification, Mitchell considered it too conservative and it lost out to the equally orthodox Gloster Gladiator. As a private venture (like its Merlin engine) he drew up plans for a far more advanced, virtually all-metal monoplane interceptor, designed to take on bombers. The prototype Spitfire first flew in early 1936. The Air Ministry, this time impressed as by now Nazi Germany was embarking on a massive rearmament, immediately ordered 310 Spitfires.

Two years later the Navy asked Rolls Royce to designed a scaled up Merlin as the power plant for their multi-seaters. It needed to be more powerful than the Merlin and have good low-level performance. It was an obvious move to fit the resulting Griffon on a Spitfire and after a fairly leisurely development the first Griffon powered Spitfire, the Mk. XII, began operations in late 1942.

Though blisteringly fast at low level, performance tailed off badly at altitude and an improved Griffon was produced creating the Spitfire Mk. XIV. Armed with two 20mm cannons and four 0.303" machineguns (or an alternative machinegun fit of two 0.5") the Mk. XIV's only drawback was limited range due to the thirsty Griffon.
 It equipped six squadrons for the campaign in France, generally operating in the air-superiority role.
ISA41d & ISA41e

 

Hawker Typhoon

Arguably the most effective ground attack aircraft of the war. Hawker's design to find a successor to the Hurricane began even before the Hurricane was put into service as it was acknowledged even then that it had little development potential and would quickly become obsolete. However, the Typhoon still opted for a similar thicker wing than most contemporary fighters and though this gave it strength and a larger space for armament and fuel tanks, the extra drag somewhat degraded the performance, especially at altitude and in a high-speed dive.

The outbreak of war meant that progress on the Typhoon slowed whilst Hawkers concentrated on Hurricane production. Development was handed over to the Gloster company and the first Typhoons flew from Brockworth in Gloucester in the spring of 1941. By then the new Fw 190 was beating up the RAF's Spitfire Vs and the Typhoon, soon nicknamed 'Tiffy' by its pilots, was rushed into service before the Sabre engine was fully matured and inherent structural problems had been addressed, issues that plagued the plane throughout its service life. It was also soon noticed that its general outline and squat Sabre engine made it look much like the Fw 190 it was taking on and large black and white wing stripes were added to aid recognition. These were later adopted by all Allied aircraft for the D-Day campaign and beyond.

With the slow decline of the Luftwaffe and continuing development of the Spitfire it was acknowledged that, like its Hurricane predecessor, the Typhoon would be better used as a ground attacker. Luckily, it was very much suited to the role being very robust with a good low-level performance. By the end of 1943 rocket-armed Typhoons formed the main ground-attack weapon and there were 18 squadrons ready for
Overlord. By then the majority had been fitted with the innovative 'bubble' canopy with much improved visibility, especially in the dangerous '6 o'clock' rear zone.

The Typhoon had a powerful armament of four 20mm cannons and could carry up to 16 rockets or 2,000lbs of bombs.
ISA76 & ISA76a

 

Hawker Tempest

It soon became apparent that the Typhoon's thick wing had a degrading effect on performance, particularly in a fast dive, and a new thinner wing of a different, Spitfire-like, shape produced the Tempest. The same four 20mm cannons, bubble canopy and somewhat problematic Sabre engine were used but the fuselage was strengthened following the Typhoon's structural failure issues.

The result was a superb fighter, probably the fastest piston-engine plane at low level, where it was even able to dogfight with the Me 262. However, the preferred option against the jet was a tactic dubbed the 'Rat Scramble' whereby on being alerted that jets were operating, the Tempests would attack them just as they were landing.

The Tempest's main role, though, was armed reconnaissance; hunting for targets of opportunity. Frontline squadrons began exchanging their Typhoons from spring 1944.
ISA77 & ISA77a

 

North American B-25 Mitchell
Named after the late and previously much derided 'Billy' Mitchell. In post WW1 America Brigadier-General Mitchell was the most vocal of the bombing advocates and the only man for whom an American warplane is named. The B-25 medium bomber was not used in North West Europe by the USAAF but saw extensive action with the RAF in the campaign for France.

It initially lost out to the A-20 Havoc but the design was tweaked and eventually the B-25 was ordered at the same time as the B-26. The RAF, Canadians and Free Dutch received around 900 B-25s from 1943 onwards and they first operated as conventional medium bombers before switching to close support in France. The B-25 was a tough and forgiving aircraft but lacked the speed of the other American twin-engine bombers.

Many of the later version Mitchell IIIs were fitted with multiple fixed forward firing 0.5" machineguns (as on the A-26) as well as waist guns and a twin turret mounted near the front able to add to the strafing fire. The earlier Mitchell II had fewer forward guns and retained the retractable ventral twin turret of earlier versions.
ISA249b


de Havilland Mosquito FB Mk. VI
The British Air Ministry specification for a bomber that eventually led to both the Halifax and Lancaster was approached in a different way by the innovative de Havilland company. They instead came up with the idea of a two-seat unarmed fast bomber, able to outrun any pursuing fighter by virtue of its two Merlin engines and sleek lines.
 Because metal would no doubt be at a premium for island Britain during a war De Havilland proposed to build their bomber using readily available wood, as on their successful civil airliners. Though not as rigid, wood has a strength to weight ration as good as the metals used on most contemporary aircraft.

The resulting Mosquito (or 'Mossie' to most) was an outstanding light bomber that saw service from late 1941 to the end of the war and beyond.
 At virtually the same time as the bomber version was entering service a fighter version was designed. By 1943 the fighter-bomber FB Mk. VI was introduced fitted with a devastating armament of four 20mm canons and four 0.303" machineguns mounted in the nose (taking up half the bomb bay) and strengthened wings able to carry either rockets or two 500lb bombs in addition to two 500lb bombs in the reduced bomb bay.

The FB Mk. VI served with 2nd Tactical Air Force supporting the Normandy battle and for special precision raids such as attacks on Gestapo HQs and V-1 launch sites.
ISA75 & ISA75b

Avro Lancaster
Avro's initial effort at a heavy bomber design was the twin-engine Manchester but this was found to be horribly underpowered by its unreliable engines. When fitted with four Merlins the Manchester was transformed into arguably the best and most versatile night heavy bomber of the war and was the mainstay of the RAF's bombing offensive against Germany. Performance far exceeded expectations and it was rushed into service from early 1942.

Like all British bombers, the 'Lanc' was somewhat under-armed in comparison to US bombers, fitted with two twin 0.303" machinegun turrets and a rear quad 0.303" turret. Normal bomb load was at least 14,000lbs, much more than its American B-17 and B-24 contemporaries.
 Most Lancaster missions were at night but Bomber Command did provide daylight support during the Normandy campaign, notably for Operation Goodwood near Caen and against V-1 launch sites, often escorted by RAF Mustangs. Daylight raids became more common towards the end of the war as the fighter threat diminished.
ISA82

Handley Page Halifax
Like the Lancaster, the Halifax design also started off with two engines. It too finally appeared with four Merlins but in 1943 the Halifax Mk. III started production with four of the more powerful Hercules radial engines. Armament was two quad 0.303" machinegun turrets (dorsal and rear) and a single nose machinegun. Maximum bomb load was 13,000lbs.

Though it was generally considered inferior to the Lancaster, although it actually had a lower mission loss rate and better crew survivability, the RAF was loath to stop production as it would have taken time to switch to the Lancaster. Bomber Command's Halifax/Lancaster ratio progressively dropped from 1943 onwards but the Halifax still played a significant role in the Normandy campaign and the drive through France.
ISA84a




LUFTWAFFE

 

 

Messerschmitt Bf 109

Designed by Willy Messerschmitt after his company merged with the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (hence Bf rather than Me). The Bf 109 was a lightweight cutting-edge development of a series of sporting aircraft produced by Messerschmitt in the 1920s and early 30s. It first flew in 1935 and saw action in the Spanish Civil War where the many glitches were smoothed out and German pilots learned to tame what could be a tricky plane to fly.

Like the Spitfire, the Bf 109 was much improved by continuous development throughout the war. The later G 'Gustav' model, which saw service from 1943 to war's end, had an improved airframe and much more powerful engine with power-boost to increase high altitude performance. Various 'bolt on' kits and field modifications; including 20mm underwing cannon pods, extra armour, bomb racks, rocket tubes etc. meant that the Bf 109 could be tailored to fit a variety of tasks, though in the main it operated in as clean a set-up as possible as it was the Luftwaffe's main weapon against Allied fighters.

Flown by the top three German aces, the type shot down more enemy planes than any other aircraft in history. It was generally armed with two heavy machineguns and a 20mm cannon, all fitted in the nose section as the wings were somewhat slender for these larger weapons.

The Bf 109 is
one of the most produced aircraft ever with over 24,000 Gustavs alone entering service, one of its main virtues being that it was much simpler and cheaper to make than other contemporary fighters. The final K mark of late 1944 was similar to the G.
ISA141aa & b

Focke-Wulf Fw 190A Wurger
Designed by the legendary Kurt Tank (with a name like that he should have been doing Panthers and Tigers) as a versatile all-rounder. The original concept had two versions, one with the Bf 109's sleek in-line engine and one with a hefty radial. The decision was taken to choose the radial so as not to impinge on in-line engine production.

Well armoured and armed the Fw 190, named Wurger (Shrike), also had exceptional speed and was fitted with a host of advanced flying aids. The cockpit canopy offered much improved visibility over the Bf 109. The only disappointments were poor high altitude performance and engine unreliability.

When first flown operationally in late 1941 the Fw 190 was found to be superior to the Spitfire in nearly all respects. Two years later the Fw 190 was pitted against the first bombing raids by B-17s and B-24s based in England, proving their worth by inflicting heavy losses.

Superbly versatile with a large range of armament options the Fw 190 was the most effective multi-role fighter of the war and over 20,000 of the numerous variants were built. Like the Bf 109 it was often fitted with extra armour, bomb racks (generally for a single 500kg/1,100lb bomb), rocket tubes, gun pods, drop tanks etc. but could haul around much more than the Messerschmitt. The Fw 190F/G version even replaced the Stuka as the main ground attacker.

Normally armed with two 7.9mm machineguns in the nose and four 20mm cannon in the wings.
ISA160

Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8 Sturmbocke
By 1944 the Luftwaffe found that their conventional fighters were increasingly vulnerable to the massed fire put out by the  tight combat boxes now employed by the bomber formations and that their own firepower was insufficient to shoot down the heavy bombers they nicknamed viermots or 'four mot(or)s'.

The twin-engine heavy fighters such as the Bf 110 and Me 410, though more able to take punishment, fell easy prey to the nippy escort fighters that now protected every raid by the 8th Air Force. The Sturmb
ocke was designed to bridge the gap being heavily armed with 30mm cannons, which could usually down a B-17 with three hits and a B-24 with one or two, and extra armour; proof against anything but a lucky hit from a bomber's machineguns.

The extra weight still degraded performance so a Bf 109 escort was usually needed, though at least
it was manoeuvrable enough to have a chance, however slim, against the Mustangs. The Sturmbocke were organised in their own separate Sturmgruppe units which operated closely with their Bf 109 escorts.

Modifications to the normal Fw 190 armament were two 30mm cannons replacing two of the 20mm wing cannons and two 13mm heavy MGs instead of the 7.9mm nose guns. A 21 cm one-shot rocket pod was often added under each wing firing spin-stabilized shells with a timed fuse pre-set to 800m. This would cause damage to a bomber if it exploded within about 30m of it. Just over 1,300 A-8s were built.
ISA160b

Focke-Wulf Fw 190D
In order to improve high altitude performance an in-line engine was added to a lengthened Fw 190 fuselage, producing the Fw 190D nicknamed 'Long-Nosed Dora'. The design was meant as a stopgap until Kurt Tank's similar but superior Ta 152 could be properly developed (of which only 150 were completed before the war ended).

Faster and better in a climb and dive than the radial Fw 190. As it was intended to be used mostly as a dogfighter armament was kept deliberately light at two nose 13mm machineguns and two 20mm cannons in the wing roots.
Some 'Doras' were formed into Platzsicherungstaffel Me 262 airfield guard units. 1,800 were produced from the late summer of 1944.
ISA160c

Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe
In the endless debate over the greatest fighter of WW2 the Me 262 is definitely a contender. Nothing had been seen like it and it was the first ever operational jet. The design was an outstanding example of alternative thinking, began even before WW2 started, and if development had not been as leisurely it could have made a real impact. As it was, by the time it entered combat in mid-1944 the war was already lost. Allied bombing of fuel supplies and factories (plus sabotage by the slave workforce) and Allied fighter sweeps over Me 262 airfields meant that their overall impact on the war was negligible.

The initial project was to use Hans von Ohain's jet engine to power a revolutionary fighter, aptly named the Schwalbe ('Swallow'). As with any new technology it took a long time to produce a viable jet engine and at first, with the war going well for the Nazis, budget and resources were cut back on what was considered an unnecessary luxury. The first successful flight was July 1942 and by the time the Me 262 was in service Hitler had decided to use it as a bomber. It was not until 1945 that the jet was first let loose as a pure fighter, though initially the pilots were told not to attack bombers as it was thought the unarmoured engines and large fuel tanks would be vulnerable to defensive fire.

A typical sortie for the Schwalbe was an attack by 37 jets on an overwhelming force of over 1,200 bombers and half as many escorting Mustangs in March 1945. Twelve bombers and one Mustang were shot down for the loss of three jets. Over 1,300 American bombers made a raid on the Me 262 airfields in the following month. 63 jets were scrambled shooting down ten B-17s but 27 jets were lost.

Though
at least 100 mph faster than any Allied fighter the jet engine's axial flow type compressor was much more difficult to make and lack of certain metals made them very unreliable and with an extremely short running life. The British and Americans opted for the bulky and less efficient centrifugal compressor even though this degraded performance in comparison with the German jets. Jet engines of this period also consumed a lot of fuel so range was limited. Just over 1,400 Me 262s saw service.

The Schwalbe was Armed with four nose-mounted 30mm cannons and could also be fitted with up to 24 rocket rails. Reconnaissance versions were normally unarmed.
ISA180

Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel
In mid 1943 Hitler decided that the Me 262 should be configured as a light bomber to attack the expected Allied invasion of France. Therefore, in May 1944 the first squadron equipped with this revolutionary warplane was a bomber outfit; former Ju 88 unit KG.51. So at first most of the pilots transferred to jets had trained on bombers.

The Sturmvogel ('Stormbird') only had two 30mm cannons but was given extra fuel tanks and hard points for two 500kg (1,100lb) bombs.
ISA180

Messerschmitt Me 410 Hornisse
The disastrous Me 210, intended to replace the aging Bf 110 (with a similar twin-engine twin-seat configuration) gained such a bad reputation that when after many attempts a passable version was finally produced it was given a new designation; Me 410 Hornisse ('Hornet')

In reality, the concept of the heavy fighter, or in German parlance Zerstorer ('destroyer'), had already proved flawed. It was certainly better than the Bf 110 and could carry a useful bombload in the ground attack role. Its guns could be devastating against a bomber but the problem was getting through the swarms of escort fighters and it proved to be easy meat.

Later Me 410s sported a pair of heavy machineguns and two 20mm canons in the nose but a suite of 'bolt on' kits for fitting under the nose meant there was a great variety of armament configurations, ranging from a massive 50mm cannon, two 30mm guns, and extra 20mm or heavy machineguns. Alternatively, a camera pack could be fitted for reconnaissance, a fairly common role when operating over the Normandy battlefield. For defence two remote-control barbettes each fitted with a single heavy machinegun covered the rear, operated by the observer.

The Hornisse operated from early 1943 and just over 1,100 were made before production ended in September 1944.
ISA163

Arado Ar 234 Blitz
Originally designed as the war's ultimate untouchable reconnaissance plane the Blitz was a sleek unarmed single-seater powered by the same two jet engines as the Me 262. The first reconnaissance mission was flown in August 1944 over the Normandy beaches and bombing raids began at the end of the year during the Battle of the Bulge.

The design showed such promise that it was decided to produce a fast bomber version. As there was no room fit a bomb bay the maximum bomb load of 3,300lbs was carried externally. There was scope to fit two remote 20mm cannons in the tail but these seemed not to have been used on operations.


The Blitz was fast, though not as quick as the Me 262, and surprisingly manoeuvrable at high speeds. It is probable that less than 200 saw operational use.

ISA183

 

 

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