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Originally Posted by Eric Husher
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The Allies did a fair bit of ground attack missions with a variety of fighter aircraft in the last six months (I think it was mostly whatever and whomever was available at any given time), in a crude imitation of the German technique used with the specialized CL and J-type aircraft, but they didn't give a lot of thought to specialized aircraft for ground attack until very late in the war (Sopwith Salamander, etc). As a result, I am quite sure you are right, the Allies likely lost a fair number of aircraft and pilots to groundfire as well...