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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> At its height in World War II the US Army Air Forces had 2411294 men and women in uniform. By the time the war was over the Army Air Forces would take delivery of almost 230000 air- craft to be flown by 193440 pilots. By far the majority of the Army Air Forces’ effort went into manning the service’s bombers the very heart of American air power doc- trine. The numbers built of each type were staggering: 12677 B-17s at $204370 each in 1944; 18188 B-24s (more than any sin- gle American aircraft in history) for $215515 each; 9815 B-25s at $142194 each; 5157 B-26s at $192427 each; 3760 B-29s for $605360 each; 7230 A-20s at $100800 each; and 2446 A-26s at $192457 each.