Subject: What it took to get wings in WW II.
From: vincent p. norris
Date: 7/15/03 7:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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I think that estimate is much too high. I don't know how many pilots
there were in the Air Corps during WW II (are you also including
bombardiers and navigators?), but if they were only two or three
percent of the number who started, then the starting number would have
to have been larger than the entire U.S. male population!

Roughly speaking.

vince norris

How can you know that when you don't know the final number?

Arthur Kramer

I don't "know" it, Art, which I admitted, and which is why I added
"roughly speaking."

If you know it, let the rest of us know and we'll do the math, just
for curiosity's sake.

vince norris


I have no idea which is why I don't try to speculate and guesstimate. Roughly
speaking that is.

Arthur Kramer
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