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To: Bilow who wrote (7613)10/26/2001 1:00:23 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
the significant loss of aircraft while fighting a three-front war; and the critical loss of experienced pilots, to include the lack of pilot training, were all key to the demise of the Luftwaffe.

Actually, German aircraft production was still very high in 1944-45. The problem was the lack of pilots and fuel.

And the reason there was a lack of pilots comes down to one major flaw in both the German and Japanese replacement and training system. Unlike the US, where a pilot performed a limited number of missions before being sent back to the states to impart their experience to new trainees, the Germans and Japanese both generally kept their pilots in the seat until they died, or were wounded too seriously to fly.

Thus, not properly rotating experienced personnel into training roles eventually left Germany with fewer experienced pilots, as well as undertrained recruits, due to the attritional aspects you noted.

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