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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 The World War II Data Book
- 1 2 "Out-Producing the Enemy: American Production During WWII" (PDF). National World War II Museum. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- 1 2 3 4 Craven, Wesley Frank (1984) [1955]. The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume 6, Men and Planes. University of Chicago Press/Office of Air Force History. p. 350. ISBN 0-912799-03-X.
- 1 2 3 Overy 2016, p. 55.
- ↑ United States Strategic Bombing Surveys (PDF). Air University Press. October 1987. ISBN 1-58566-018-3.
- ↑ Zeitlin, Jonathan (1995). "Flexibility and Mass Production at War: Aircraft Manufacture in Britain, the United States, and Germany, 1939-1945". Technology and Culture. 36 (1): 46–79. doi:10.2307/3106341. ISSN 0040-165X. JSTOR 3106341.
- ↑ "German Aircraft Production during WW2". The American War Library. Archived from the original on 2004-02-25.
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