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#U. S, PLANES
^ Vs.' ENEMY’S
By ROBERT M. FARRINGTON
WASHINGTON — American
Army planes are good—but not
four times as good as the ene
my’s.
An Office of War Information
report on combat performance
since Pearl Harbor claimed a
four-to-one superiority on the
basis of Axis losses of 7,312
planes against 1,867 of our own.
The Navy, without releasing to
tal figures, estimated its super
iority at the same rate.
Aviation experts, with a
A healthy respect for the fighting
ability of Germany and Japan,
immediately criticized these fig
ures as being hopelessly out of
balance.
. Different Basis .
To start with, these experts
pointed out, enemy losses in
cluded planes destroyed on the
•ground <1,033) while our lossefc
were for actual combat only.
# (OWI later revised its report to
a 3-to-l edge.)
Furthermore, 500 German
fighters lost against 103 Flying
Fortresses (the 8th Air Force’s
July record) may or may not be
a bargain. In any case it is cer
tainly not a better than 4-to-l
score since fighter losses cannot
be compared to bomber losses.
In men alone we lost twice as
many as the Germans. Each
Fortress carries a crew of ten.
It takes many times longer to
build a Fortress than it does a
fighter, so the loss of 100 bomb
ers might hurt us more than the
loss of several hundred fighters
hurts the enemy.
A raid that would cripple Ger
many in a vital spot might be
worth dozens of bombers, how
ever, so that unless the amount
o fdamage done can be weighed
as well, the statistics of plane
losses do not mean much.
The 1,867 American planes lost
is strictly a combat figure and
does not include badly damaged
planes that managed to get home,
though too smashed up to fly
again, nor does it include oper
ational losses. In some theatres
we have cracked up far more
planes taking off, landing, in
storms, etc., than in actual fight
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ing.
One of the keys to our suc
cesses, which have been more
numerous in the past six months
than in the early stages of the
war, is the numerical superior
ity in planes that we hold on
nearly every front.
The advantage here is not
numbers alone, but the fact we
were thereby able to take the j
initiative. Since every plane has;
peak-performance altitudes, when
we were on the offensive we were
able to attack at levels that gave
us the greatest margin of per- j
formance over the enemy’s
planes. j
In the China theatre, where we j
are still outnumbered, Major |
General Chennault ran up a ter- •
rific score against the Japs (us
ing the almost obsolete P-40) by J
studying the weaknesses of the ;
Jap Zero and never allowing the
Japs to take advantage of the
weaknesses in our planes.
Our planes are good, and get
ting better all the time, but it is
utter complacency, the experts
say, o believe that we are four
times better in the air than the
Nazis and Japs.
BASEBALL
RESULTS
Monday's Games
American League
Boston 0, St. Louis 3.
Washington 0, Cleveland 6.
New York 5, Chicago 4. (Sec
ond game).
National League
Chicago 7, Philadelphia 6.
Chicago 5, Philadelphia 1.
Tuesday's Games
American League
Boston 0, St. Louis 1.
Washington 8, Cleveland 3.
New York 9, Chicago 5.
National League
... Chicago IS-l, Philadelphia 0-10.
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