The real fleet of USN P4M Mercators was retired well before American forces began large-scale combat operations in Southeast Asia, but for this what if, I postulated that the type had been produced in larger numbers, and thus a few had hung on in service long enough to become “EP-4E” trail interdiction platforms in the late 1960s, mirroring the real-life Army AP-2E Neptunes.
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