Volume III

During World War II the U.S. military lost some 35000 aircraft to enemy action training incidents typhoons aircraft carrier deck mishaps mechanical failures or just normal wear-and-tear where aircraft were scrapped and used for parts to keep others flying. Many just failed to return from their missions. To date the 15069 aircraft represented in this 3-volume set is information initially transferred from hand-written Aircraft History Cards and are the total number of U.S. Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard aircraft lost between 7 December 1941 and 15 August 1945 and lost outside the continental United States (CONUS). Volume III represents the total number of aircraft lost by their 176 different types and variants and represents the entire database to date. Given the thousands of hours that went into this effort the author hopes that as a 3-volume set of reference books it provides assistance to others who are researching ship squadron and aircraft histories.