the raw numbers

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Originally Posted by Bobb4

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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

For what I’ve read, one third of those 90.000 were Bf109 alone. Do you have different numbers?

Planes and pilots available at any given time is an ambiguous number. In this given time, how much severe is attrition? Think about Soviet losses in early days of Barbarossa. Think of Luftwaffe losses on the single day of Bodenplatte operation.