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Old 05-05-2009, 09:41 AM
Bobb4 Bobb4 is offline
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Flyable planes for the Luftwafe at any given time did not number more than 2000 to 3000 at any given time...
How you get figure of 90 000 planes built I will never know...
Take a look at this link and realise that at any given time the Luftwafe only had about 3000 pilots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaf...ths_(1940-1945)
Not arguing the case as the link is not a source i would overly trust.
Just hearing fantastical figure of planes produces seems nonsense.
I could be wrong but, 90 000 planes?
That would have made the Luftwaffe 18 000 strong during the battle of britain?
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