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Army Air Forces Statistical Digest,
World War II |
Table 156 -- Rounds of Ammunition Expended by Twentieth Air
Force, By Type of Airplane and by Type of Ammunition: 1944 and1945
(In thousands of rounds)
| Type of Airplane and Type of
Ammunition |
Grand Total |
1944
(Jun-Dec) |
1945
(Jan-Aug) |
| Total |
|
|
|
| Machine Gun: 50 caliber |
11,368 |
2,036 |
9,332 |
| Cannon: 20 millimeter |
32 |
25 |
7 |
| |
|
|
|
| Very Heavy Bomber |
|
|
|
| XX Bomber Command |
|
|
|
| Machine Gun: 50 caliber |
1,392 |
1,155 |
237 |
| Cannon: 20 millimeter |
13 |
13 |
- |
| XXI Bomber Command |
|
|
|
| Machine Gun: 50 caliber |
7,561 |
881 |
6,680 |
| Cannon: 20 millimeter |
17 |
12 |
5 |
| Fighter |
|
|
|
| Machine Gun: 50 caliber |
2,415 |
- |
2,415 |
| Cannon: 20 millimeter |
2 |
- |
2 |
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