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Aerial Box Score Shows Definite Supremacy of American Planes
Compiled from OWI bulletins and War Department reports, box scores show American combat aircraft achieving clear leads in sorties and enemy losses from Dec 7 1941 to Sept 1 1943. Heavy bombers, medium bombers, fighters and Navy aircraft all register favorable ratios across theaters led by Sino-Pacific and European fronts.
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United States Army Air Forces
OW1
War Department
Navy Department
Material Command
Wright Field
Bureau of Aeronautics
Air Force
Army Air Forces
Seeyse
Weare Cholls
China
Henry H. Arnold
Germany
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Sicily
Sardinia
Italy
Eighth
Ninth Air Forces
Claire L. Chennault
14Th Air Force
United States
Chennault
Navy
North Solomons
Rome
Tunis
Ferryville
Grumman Avengers
Grumman
SBD
Eastern Solomons
America
Army
Zeke
Hap
Melly
Sally
Martin Mariner