America's Hundred Thousand Production Totals

On Wed, 12 May 2004 05:10:57 -0400, Cub Driver
wrote:

All air force Lend-Lease aircraft were first taken into the air force,
so should be included in USAAF deliveries.

What do you mean by "taken in", though? All lend-lease aircraft were
ordered against USAAF or USN contracts, and were allocated US service
ID numbers. This does not mean they were ever taken on strength by
the US services, however. Most lend-lease Kittyhawks were shipped
direct from the factory to the port where they were exported, with
little beyond paper records (and the relevant allocated US serial
being sprayed on the airframe) recording their production against US
procurement contracts.

This extended even to aircraft the USAAF never adopted, notably the
Vultee P-66s that show on the air force books. They went straight to
China, or rather India.

Sure, but this is why I asked about the provenance of the figures
involved, e.g. for for production totals as calculated by the
manufacturer, or delivery totals to the USAAF (i.e. actually received
by the USAAF as the end-user). While the P-40s in question were all
"USAAF aircraft", some were never formally in the hands of a USAAF
unit of any kind.

Gavin Bailey


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While the P-40s in question were all
"USAAF aircraft", some were never formally in the hands of a USAAF
unit of any kind.

Oh, certainly. But when you look at USAAF procurement, as in Fahey's
"Gray Book", the lend-lease aircraft are there. As I recall, the P-66s
are there, for example.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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