Danny... absolutely. It seems to have been a bad decision to replace the Vengeances with Mosquitoes. I think some squadrons, like 110 got back into the fight in 1945, at the end of the Burma campaign, but 84 Sqdn, who came out of Burma a couple of months after the other Vengeance Sqdns were withdrawn to re-equip, failed to get back to the fight. Here's why...
July 1944: Withdrew from action in Burma to Samungli, Quetta.
September: CO (Arthur) posted. Temporary CO took over. Sqdn strength reduced by half.
October: all Vengeances withdrawn and Sqdn moved to Yelahanka, Bangalore, on the opposite side of India. Temporary CO replaced by new CO.
November: new CO replaced by another, the now 'old CO' becoming a Flight Commander. Mosquito conversion staff arrived, but no Mosquitoes... used Oxfords. Mosquitoes held up by technical failures... fresh plan was to re-equip with Vengeance IIIs and get back into action.
December: Only five Vengeances were on strength, brought out from storage, due to manufacturing faults with the self-sealing fuel tanks of newly shipped aircraft, so the original plan to convert to Mosquitoes was to resume.
February 1945: First 'Mossie' arrived. Three aircraft lost to flying accidents.
April: Conversion and initial training on the Mosquito completed and 16 aircraft on strength. Sqdn moved to Chiharra, Calcutta, to await move forward to the battle. Fighter affiliation exercises conducted.
May: plan to move to Chakulia postponed, due to shortage of transport. CO posted.
June: More losses due to flying accidents. Further three aircraft condemned due to deterioration of wing surfaces... the wooden Mosquito was not faring well in tropical conditions. Sqdn strength down to nine aircraft. New CO arrived. (Wg Cdr Constable-Maxwell managed to prevent the Sqdn being disbanded, through a contact in the Air Council.) Sqdn moved to St Thomas Mount, Madras, South India. CO's insistence on practice dive-bombing the Mosquito wasn't liked as there were no dive brakes on the aircraft, and one crew fatality followed.
July: Five crews posted to 45 Sqdn.
August: Atom bombs dropped and Japan surrendered.
Conversion to the Mosquito evidently caused a massive 'faff'. Had the Vengeances been kept on strength in 84 Sqdn, they would have been back in action in October 1944, when the monsoon cleared. That would have facilitated a further eight months of fighting in support of the 14th Army until July '45, when the monsoon returned. The one 'upside' of course, was that the fight to reconquer Burma was, in the final analysis, made redundant by the dropping of the Atom bombs.
It's regrettable that the Americans hadn't been able to develop the Atom Bomb earlier. Had they done so, the Vengeance Sqdns and everybody else could have relaxed in the shade with
nimbu parnies, instead of risking their necks. But then a remarkable chapter in the history of the RAF would never have been written.