I have read Class Yearbooks from those WW II Training Centers. They did have Memorial Pages for the Lost ☹️
1 year ago | 8
The losses of pilots in non-combat situations in the Luftwaffe were about 45% of the total and in the Soviet Air Force even a bit more.
1 year ago | 18
My great uncle was one who died in a training accident in England! He was the pilot and everyone else except his trapped gunner had jumped out he tried to free him but both died
1 year ago | 7
I wonder the casualty rate for those doing the British Commonwealth Air Training Program in Canada.
1 year ago | 8
The b29 also had a massive and fatal design fault. It was also a tad too a head of the times.
1 year ago | 7
My grandfather crashed on training during ww1 and refused to get back in a plane and was demoted🤣
1 year ago | 0
I thought your supposed to learn from your mistakes seriously 15 thousand and 3 men. And no one thought at all that's negligence. Bearing in mind that's more than one division plus operation tiger. Only 1500 plus died in operation husky in 1943
1 year ago | 2
War Academy
👉How many American pilots died during their training phase? 😨
After 70 hours of theory classes and theoretical instruction, the students went on to train with fighters or bombers.
They made long-distance flights and were trained to land a single-engine bombing raid.
This made everything much more dangerous. In 1943 alone, there were more than 20,000 major accidents at Army Air Force bases in the United States.
In those 20,000 accidents in 1943, 5,603 aviators died, to which another 9,400 must be added during the following two years.
In total, an estimated 15,000 airmen died at American training bases.
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