On Oct 3, 8:09 pm, The Amaurotean Capitalist
wrote:
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:06:23 -0700, Eunometic
wrote:

P-51; the P-38 had sufficient range to cover untill the P-47M with a
wett wing which actually
could excede the range of the P-51.

The P-47N wasn't available until nearly a year and a half after the
P-51B; good luck trying to sell a long-range P-47 available in
mid-1945 to Arnold when he demanded a long-range escort fighter for
the ETO in mid-1943.

Gavin Bailey

Yes but the P-47B or P-47C didn't have the tail tank and therefor
range yet.

If pressed to find a solution to extra tankage it would have been
possible to introduce a tanked wing earlier i feel.