Chugalug,
What a feast of links you've laid out for me ! I'm even more in your debt now -even though my next Post is never going to get written at this rate.
I'm rather surprised that Ernst Udet chose the Curtis Hawk. We knew it in Burma as the Mohawk, I think 5 Sqdn had some in the North of the area. As far as I can remember, it would be far too flimsy to serve as a basis for a dive bomber development. Fighter/Ground attack would be more in its line. Out there it suffered from a close resemblence to the Nakajima "Oscar": it collected a bit of friendly fire on that account, I believe ( the Oscar would have it for breakfast if they ever met).
With renewed thanks, then,
Goodnight, Danny.