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Show Airplanes and Pilots in World War I, and Now Our army and navy had only 55 planes when the United States entered the first World war. And 51 of these had been pronounced obsolete by the advisory committee commit-tee on aeronautics. The Allies had, all told, about 700 planes at the start. At the close of the war, Great Britain had 14,000, France had 12,000 and the United States, 10,000. At the war's end, Germany had about 11,000. In 1914, there were only about 1,000 trained pilots in the world. Four years later there were more than 100,000. Today there are more than a quarter of a million. |
