Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Glossary
- 1 The Anglo-American Relationship and the Need for Historical Interpretation
- 2 The Evolution of Transatlantic Aircraft Supply Diplomacy, 1938–40
- 3 The Diplomacy of Critical Dependency, 1940
- 4 Lend-Lease and the Politics of Supply, 1941
- 5 The Limits of Dependency: American Aircraft in Action, 1940–2
- 6 Heavy Bomber Supply Diplomacy, 1941–2
- 7 The Problem of Quality: the Fighter Supply Crisis of 1942
- 8 Collaboration and Interdependency
- Appendix RAF Air Strength by aircraft type on 3 September 1939, 1940, 1941 and 1942
- Unpublished Sources Cited in Text
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix RAF Air Strength by aircraft type on 3 September 1939, 1940, 1941 and 1942
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Glossary
- 1 The Anglo-American Relationship and the Need for Historical Interpretation
- 2 The Evolution of Transatlantic Aircraft Supply Diplomacy, 1938–40
- 3 The Diplomacy of Critical Dependency, 1940
- 4 Lend-Lease and the Politics of Supply, 1941
- 5 The Limits of Dependency: American Aircraft in Action, 1940–2
- 6 Heavy Bomber Supply Diplomacy, 1941–2
- 7 The Problem of Quality: the Fighter Supply Crisis of 1942
- 8 Collaboration and Interdependency
- Appendix RAF Air Strength by aircraft type on 3 September 1939, 1940, 1941 and 1942
- Unpublished Sources Cited in Text
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
RAF Strength by aircraft type on 3 September 1939, 1940, 1941 and 1942
The tables below include all aircraft except those listed as trainers and communications aircraft which have been excluded entirely. Aircraft known to have been operationally used at the time in question have been listed; those not in operational use but not listed as trainers or communication aircraft have been listed in Table A.5.
There are minor discrepancies between these figures and cumulative delivery totals and serviceable aircraft strength given elsewhere in the text, notably for the figures of Fortress Is in RAF hands on 3 September 1941. These are the most comprehensive contemporary figures on overall aircraft strength available, however. Strength includes all aircraft of given type on RAF charge on the dates in question, including damaged aircraft under repair and unserviceable aircraft within units. Aircraft in MAP hands have been excluded. Changes have been made to the classification of types from the original source as noted in the footnotes.
Table A.1 reveals the growth in the numbers of American fighters between 1940 and 1940; 0 per cent in 1940, to 12 per cent in 1941 and 17 per cent in 1942. The percentage of American fighters split between the UK and overseas changed from 7.6 per cent and 36.2 per cent in 1941 to 11.8 per cent and 32.5 per cent in 1942.
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- The Arsenal of DemocracyAircraft Supply and the Anglo-American Alliance, 1938-1942, pp. 278 - 285Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2013