Chugalug,
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...why wasn't the RAF so minded with the VV? "Not Invented Here", perhaps?...
Worse than that. The RAF didn't really want a dive bomber at all, wished they'd never taken over the French contract, and when they saw what they'd bought (at $63,000 a throw), were only concerned to put it "out of sight, out of mind" - which amounted to India in those days.
Then, by a series of fortunate coincidences, it got the opportunity to show what it could do, and started to build up a reputation, which steadily grew as the 14th Army showered thanks and congratulations on it for its bunker-busting-capability. But Higher Authority took a different view.
The policy at home was set in stone: the Vengeance was a mistake, get rid of it ASAP. Meanwhile allow no favourable publicity for it and belittle reports of its success. It wasn't difficult to "lose" bad news, the public at home were rightly concerned with the wonderful work of Bomber Command by night, and the 8th Air Force by day, and by Monty and his merry men chasing Rommel round the North African desert. Burma was "a far off land of which we know little" (Neville Chamberlain).
Some of this descended into spite (as when Wg Cdr Gill's recommendation for a DSO for his work on 84 with the Chindits was watered down to a DFC for his deed on a Spitfire, by AHQ, Delhi). So in the end the Vengeance went to its grave "unhonoured and unsung", and has remained so to this day.
Danny.
PS: In all fairness it must be admitted that, had the Japanese Army Command turned its "Oscars" loose on the VVs, there would've been no story - but they didn't.
D.