Re: Tempest Mk.V
Going to my resources, not even that, Don.
Extracting from "The Typhoon & Tempest Story" by Chris Thomas and Chris Shores (page 111), trials with underwing stores did not begin until the summer of '44. Only in the last days of the war did 33 Sqn first fly missions with underwing 500lb bombs.
Tempests were thus limited to 20mm cannon (and long-range fuel tanks with the Mk5 Srs ii) until WinSPMBT comes along. Starnge - I always though they had the same armament as the Typhoon: you live and learn!
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