To: Kaslin
To give a sense of scale, Americans today can't imagine a world where any other nation has a bigger or more powerful military. But as World War II began, "The Army Air Corps had only 51,000 trained flyers," according to Shirley's research. But "The Royal Air Force had 500,000 pilots, and the German Luftwaffe had a million pilots."These numbers seem wildly inflated to me.
A million pilots? for how many planes?
10 posted on
12/04/2015 10:27:54 AM PST by
exit82
("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
To: exit82
Yep. Wildly inflated. For the Germans that million figure is probably overstated by a factor of twenty. The RAF had about 8,000 pilots of all types.
To: exit82
How many planes and helicopters does the US military currently own/maintain?
21 posted on
12/04/2015 1:12:07 PM PST by
Paladin2
(my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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