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> Today, of the 10,000 or so P-38s Lightnings which were made in the 1940s, only about six working P-38s remain.

I'm often amazed at the scale of war-time manufacturing production. According to wikipedia, there were over 15,000 P-51s and over 12,000 B-17 made.

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Indeed. The U.S. Army Air Force had over 80,000 planes in its inventory at one time during WW2, and by the end of the war, had built nearly 300,000 planes. See [0] for details.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_aircraft_produ...

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