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> Today, of the 10,000 or so P-38s Lightnings which were made in the 1940s, only about six working P-38s remain. I'm often amazed at the scale of war-time manu
by elihu 7y ago
> Today, of the 10,000 or so P-38s Lightnings which were made in the 1940s, only about six working P-38s remain.
I'm often amazed at the scale of war-time manufacturing production. According to wikipedia, there were over 15,000 P-51s and over 12,000 B-17 made.
- markoman 7y agoIndeed. The U.S. Army Air Force had over 80,000 planes in its inventory at one time during WW2, and by the end of the war, had built nearly 300,000 planes. See [0] for details. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_aircraft_production_during_World_War_II https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_aircraft_produ...