World War II aircraft production

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This table lists aircraft production during World War II for the major allied and axis powers:

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Country1939194019411942194319441945TotalRef
United States 2,1416,08626,277 [1] 47,83685,89896,31849,761 [1] 354,750 [1] [2] [3]
Soviet Union 10,382 [4] 10,565 [4] 15,735 [1] 25,43634,245 [1] 40,246 [1] 20,052 [1] 157,261 [1]
United Kingdom 7,94015,04920,09423,67226,26326,46112,070131,549 [2] [3]
Germany 8,29510,82611,77615,596 [5] 25,52739,8077,540119,371 [3] [6] [7]
Japan 4,4674,7685,0888,86116,69328,1808,26376,320 [3]
Italy 1,6922,1423,5032,818967- [a] -11,122[ citation needed ]
France 3,1632,113- [b] ----5,276 [4]
Total38,08051,53176,256124,179190,218231,85297,577809,693

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 The World War II Data Book
  2. 1 2 "Out-Producing the Enemy: American Production During WWII" (PDF). National World War II Museum. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  3. 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.
  4. 1 2 3 Overy 2016, p. 55.
  5. United States Strategic Bombing Surveys (PDF). Air University Press. October 1987. ISBN   1-58566-018-3.
  6. 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.
  7. "German Aircraft Production during WW2". The American War Library. Archived from the original on 2004-02-25.

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