>>65201522 checked, Grumman stopped making TBF Avengers at Bethpage—handed that plane off to be produced as the TBM by Eastern Aircraft Division of General Motors— so they could spend rest of the war building only F6Fs.
>>65201522 I wonder how many didn't even get to do anything and sat un depots as replacements. Sure there's some land-based usage, foreign sales and training, but the US carrier force was not THAT big.
>>65202879 Far fewer than you probably think. The US lost nearly 3000 Hellcats over the course of WWII, and that excludes ones that were simply worn out and rotated out for ones that weren't. WWII aircraft were not at all built to last.
>>65205393 The USA didn't even give anything to USSR until 1942. The Bongs kept them in the fight for two years. Hell, they started a completely separate war just to open up a land route into Russia to do it.
>>65205402 Aid to the soviets started in the summer of '41, with lend lease starting in October of that year. Considering the soviets weren't in the war until June 22 of '41 it's not like the US failing to ramp up aid until 1942 is some big gotcha.
>>65204422 checked, /k/ Catalog should be filled with threads like this, it's an Imageboard. photograph, picture topics are the core of this board's mission (not in reality-practice unfortunately)
>>65205402 We had been selling aid to Britain, Soviets, etc until lend lease was signed in March of '41. Then we gave away almost $700,000,000,000 on faith.
>>65202879 >>65203784 Attrition for Allied carrier operations (especially in the Pacific) was high outside of actual combat engagement, thousands of planes were not lost to enemy action or fire. Just returning to the aircraft carrier was hazardous enough. Loss of fuel, missing the arresting cable, smacking the deck too rapidly/hard, striking other parked aircraft on flight deck, crashing the barrier, explosion of residual fuel/fire. That's where most of the airframe losses and casualties occurred.
>>65206207 It should be, but lack of replies and overall contribution by others is apparent. The people who cared were driven off the board by the war tourists/shills.
>>65205549 >book agents To those not in the know, "book agents" were the OG telemarketers, and they often would knock on your door at two times of the day, that being early morning when you are either about to go to work or are relaxing, or during the early evening when you have just gotten off work or are just relaxing. Needless to say, these people were very quickly hated.
>>65218255 NTA but I was aware of the reputation for door-to-door sales of things like encyclopedias, but the specific term 'book agent' is new to me. Probably not helped by a literary agent being a completely different occupation and much more common today.