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The list of aircraft of World War II includes all of the aircraft used by countries which were at war during World War II from the period between when the country joined the war and the time the country withdrew from it, or when the war ended.
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After American entry into World War II, performed any necessary servicing on aircraft transiting over North Atlantic route. In addition, beginning in early 1943, it acquired the additional mission of training engineer aviation personnel and staging hundreds of 4-engined heavy bombers and preparing them for the overseas flight to European and ...
From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day: The American Armed Forces in World War II. The American Ways Series. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee Inc. ISBN 1-56663-072-X. Kershaw, Tim (2004). Jet Pioneers: Gloster and the Birth of the Jet Age. Gloucestershire, England: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 978-0750932127. Koehler, H. Dieter (1999).
Aircraft manufacturing went from a distant 41st place among American industries to first place in less than five years. [1] [2] [3] In 1939, total aircraft production for the US military was less than 3,000 planes. By the end of the war, America produced 300,000 planes. No war was more industrialized than World War II.
The Rand McNally Encyclopedia Of Military Aircraft, 1914-1980 (1988) 546pp; includes production data; Harrison, Mark, ed. The economics of World War II: six great powers in international comparison (Cambridge University Press, 2000) Overy, Richard (2016). The Origins of the Second World War. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-20470-1. Wilson, Stewart.
North American B-45C Tornado 48-0010 [101] North American F-82B Twin Mustang 44‐65162 – configured as an F-82G [102] North American L-17A Navion 47‐1347 [103] North American F-86A Sabre 49-1067 – painted as 91236 [104] North American T-6D Mosquito 42-84216 – forward air control version of T-6 Texan trainer [105] Republic F-84E ...