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"Chris Mark" wrote From: vincent p. norris I don't know how many pilots there were in the Air Corps during WW II I found one stray figure that might be useful: in 1944 the AAFTC trained 80,693 pilots. I believe that was the peak year. As an item of interest, in 1946, it trained 344 pilots. Training figures during the WWII era (1939-1945) for the Air Force: Pilots ------------------------------- 233,198 Primary with 88,279 (~28%) failures* 193,440 Advanced with (~13%) 28,790 (~13%) failures 108,337 Transition with 7,474 (~7%) failures. Assuming everyone went Primary, Advanced, Transition (I'd *guess* that's true but someone who knows is welcome to correct the assumption), that's a total failure rate of about 39%. Bombardiers ---------------------------------- 28,361 total with 3,423 (~11%) failures** Navigation ----------------------------------- 56,119 total with 10,822 (~16%) failures*** Bombardier/Navigation ------------------------------------ 28,480 total with 3,533 (~11%) failures**** Gunners ------------------------------------ 309,236 total with 26,815 (~8%) failures***** *all failures includes training deaths ** includes Precision, Instructor, and Refresher courses *** includes Celestial, Dead Reckoning, Instructor, and Refresher **** includes Bombardier/Navigation, Bombardier DR & D8 Navigation ***** includes enlisted, officers, and instructors |
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