APPENDIX V
First-Line Aircraft of the British and German Air Forces,
June 1944 and January 1945

DATE R.A.F.1 GERMAN2
1st June 1944 8,339 6,967
1st January 1945 8,395 6,638

1. Including first-line aircraft of the Dominion and Allied Air Forces under R.A.F. control, and based on unit equipment (U.E.) of squadrons.
2. The German figures, which are extracted from Luftwaffe records, are for actual strength. They include in each case a powerful force of transport aircraft--934 in June 1944, and 488 in January 1945.

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