Talk:United States aircraft production during World War II
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All the figures originally shown represent only those planes delivered to the USAAF during World War II. That figure is approximately only 60% of what was produced 1940-1945 (for example, 295959 were delivered: 158880 to USAAF, 73711 to USN-USMC, 3714 to "other US" (US Army ground forces), 38811 to UK, 14717 to USSR, 1225 to China, and 4901 to other nations). I will work on this in my sandbox and come back with both corrected figures and source.--Buckboard 11:36, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Done.
Need Citations[edit]
Bad URL to "Army Air Forces Statistical Digest (World War II), Aircraft and Equipment, Table 79". Please source.DLH (talk) 18:19, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
- it's at AAF Digest Rjensen (talk) 18:58, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Confusion[edit]
I am rather confused. I thought that 'light bombers' were types like the Fairey Battle, (sorry, I couldn't think of a US example); 'Medium Bombers' included the likes of the B-25 Mitchell, (pictured) and the B-26 Marauder; and 'Heavy Bombers' were the B-17 Fortress and the B-24 Liberator.
If so, what falls into the category 'Very heavy bomber'? The only aircraft I can think of that might qualify is the B-29 Superfortress, but that was quite late in the war.
Does anyone know the answer?
RASAM (talk) 21:54, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
- B-29 and B-32 = very heavy see google search Rjensen (talk) 00:21, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
- That might be so, but according to the B-32 Wikipedia article, which incidentially describes this aircraft as a 'heavy bomber', comparable aircraft such as the Avro Lincoln and the B-29 are heavy bombers, the Me-264 was designed for maritime reconnaissance, (although the Bundesarchiv description is of a schwer or heavy bomber), the TU 4 was a "strategic bomber" and some variants of the X-B 33 'Super Marauder' are not categorised while others are noted as 'medium bombers' ! Only the XB-31 and the XB-30 are described as 'very heavy' bombers. And they do not seem to have progressed much beyond the prototype stage.
Editorializing?[edit]
I flagged this sentence: "The profit motive proved to be a greater spur to production than were the edicts from the generals running the totalitarian societies." This strikes me as OR, unless someone can provide a reference. It's also one that historians dispute: a major reason that US aircraft production was greater than other powers at war was because American factories were not getting bombed.
It's also factually-inaccurate in a number of ways. UK manufacturers weren't motivated by profits? German companies weren't (they were military contractors, not state companies, after all)? "Generals" also weren't running every totalitarian country - they were busy getting shot in the 30s in the USSR, for example. I'd argue to remove this line.Konchevnik81 (talk) 19:06, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
Model Breakdown[edit]
It would be interesting to have the production categories broken down by design type (how many fighters were P-47s or P-51s, for example). I don't know how easy would be to do - the USAAF link still seems to be dead.Konchevnik81 (talk) 19:12, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
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