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APPENDIX 2

Development of German Air Power, 1933–34

First-line Strength¹

TABLE D		Number
Date	Excluding transport aircraft	Including transport aircraft
1st August 1938	2,847	2,928
2nd September 1939	3,609	4,161
30th September 1939	3,763	3,990
29th June 1940	4,119	4,476
28th September 1940	4,028	4,393
29th March 1941	4,649	5,362
27th December 1941	4,176	5,167
30th June 1942	4,950	5,907
30th December 1942	4,207	5,090
30th June 1943	6,107	6,957
31st December 1943	5,536	6,439
30th June 1944	5,414	6,358
31st December 1944	6,297	6,797

Aircraft Production²

TABLE E				Number
Year	Combat types	All other types	Total	Monthly average (all types)
1933	0	368	368	31
1934	840	1,128	1,968	164
1935	1,823	1,360	3,183	265
1936	2,530	2,582	5,112	426
1937	2,561	2,955	5,606	467
1938	3,350	1,885	5,235	436
1939	4,733	3,562	8,295	691
1940	—	—	10,826	902
1941	—	—	11,424	952
1942	—	—	15,288	1,274
1943	—	—	25,094	2,091
1944	—	—	39,275	3,273

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Footnotes

¹ The figures are derived from the records of the German Air Ministry (Quartermaster-General's Department).

² The figures for 1933–40 are those given in the United States Bombing Survey Report, those for the years 1941–44 have been taken from a reliable German document. Only the totals for all types are given for those later years, but the output of non-combat types remained fairly constant from 1939, except in 1943 when it rose by approximately 2,000.