treespider -> RE: Allied aircraft production figures (8/14/2006 2:25:19 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns Sorry Treespider I was venting and the jist of my post wasn't really aimed at you personally. Just seems like I'm talking to a brick wall sometimes. To me it's obvious the US is way underrepresented, so doing a plane by plane analysis seemed like an utter waste of time. Here's an interesting read: http://www.history.navy.mil/download/ww2-7.pdf Of note is the numbers for naval aviation roles at the time of Okinawa: quote:
Naval Aviation now numbered 41,000 aircraft, 60,000 pilots, 33,000 nonpilot officers, and almost 338,000 enlisted personnel. 41,000 aircraft. Even if only half were in the Pacific, that's over 20,000 naval aircraft in operation in the Pacific after years of heavy losses had already taken their toll and air losses had begun to diminish dramatically. But I bet a lot more than half were in the Pacific by the time Okinawa rolled around. Note the number of extra pilots, I doubt the US even gets half of 60,000 pilots for all services for the entire game combined. Jim So now you are suggesting that there are too few Allied units in the game? No matter what the production rate is for a side the true limiter will be the number of units available to allow those produced aircraft to enter play. from Statistical Analysis by Ellis Total US Navy Aircraft Strengths (including Marine Corps), by type, and Total First line Combat Strengths in the Pacific 1941-1945 Year.....Combat..........Trans...........Trainer..........Other..........Total..........Total 1st Line Combat Pac. Th. (Hawaii to India) 12/43...15,164............1367............9057.............304.............25892........8268 12/44...25780.............2437............7883.............621.............36721........13065 8/45.....19402.............2876............7280.............977.............30535........14648 None of these statistics, nor the outstanding links that you provided, give us a nice simplified listing of aircraft produced and the number sent to the Pacific Theater. Although I imagine with some work those figures could be extracted. Concerning the 60,000 pilots I will make the assumption that that figure includes co-pilots and the like which the game does not account for. Do not take this to mean that I am suggesting the game is accurate. I am merely stating that you cannot say because the US had 60,000 pilots IRL, we should get 60,000 pilots - because the game does not track pilots as they were tracked IRL. I imagine most of the US bomber force utilized more than one "pilot" per plane. "Pilot" meaning an individual who completed flight school.
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