My appologies, I thought I made it clear that dedicated recon types would be prefered. If a given plane only became a recon platform via replacing one or more weapons with a camera, with no real changes, the sticking the camera in as a load would be fine.
I'm sure bombers were used this way in the SWPA since they were short on planes. They'd stick a camera up in the glazed front of a B-17 and take pictures. If there were fighyters so modified, then cut a new window behind the cockpit and add the camera load (if they knew that was a variant, they could make the figher with the camera hole waiting, then create the recon variant by opening the hole, sticking the camera in, and dumping ammo/guns as needed.
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