m10bob -> RE: Historical Logistical Question Regarding Aircraft Transport (2/16/2016 1:42:42 PM)
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Not totally off topic..The Japanese did not always have long production lines to create their planes. The "Zero" for instance was made in hundreds of "mom and pop" shops all over the place where a single plane might move from assembly barn to assembly barn by way of horse drawn wagons, till the plane was completed. Not efficient and very time consuming. Eric Bergeruds' fantastic book FIRE IN THE SKY details how the Japanese deployed their planes by flying them, island hopping till they ended at a "staging pool". Major problem the Japanese had was a real shortage of skilled ground crew and spare parts production, to brand new planes were being cannibalized for their parts before leaving the repo depots. Every airfield captured by the allies was littered with Japanese planes grounded for lack of perhaps a single part, and in the Philippines, many of those planes were otherwise brand new and unassigned "parts planes".
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