Army Air Forces Statistical Digest,
World War II

Table 185 -- Gasoline Consumption of Airplanes with Units Oveseas, By Type of Airplane: Dec 1941 to Aug 1945

(Includes very heavy, heavy, medium and light bombers and fighters.  Figures are in thousands of gallons.)
Year and Month Total Theaters vs Germany Theaters vs Japan
Total ETO MTO Total POA FEAF C & I-B Alaska Twentieth Air Force
Grand Total 2,515,109 1,761,241 1,155,412 605,829 753,868 93,798 290,016 87,364 12,607 270,083
Annually                    
1941 (Dec) 208 - - - 208 - 208 - - -
1942 18,508 5,880 3,705 2,175 12,628 2,009 8,911 733 975 -
1943 264,608 176,786 87,517 89,269 87,822 12,903 54,812 16,342 3,765 -
1944 1,281,513 1,033,701 685,366 348,335 247,812 41,396 126,656 40,031 3,954 35,775
1945
(Jan-Aug)		 950,272 544,874 378,824 166,050 405,398 37,490 99,429 30,258 3,913 234,308
Monthly                    
1941                    
Dec 208 - - - 208 - 208 - - -
1942                    
Jan 312 - - - 312 - 309 - 3 -
Feb 430 - - - 430 - 426 - 4 -
Mar 478 - - - 478 - 470 4 4 -
Apr 596 - - - 596 - 586 6 4 -
May 700 - - - 700 19 654 19 8 -
Jun 1,585 13 - 13 1,572 754 675 79 64 -
Jul 962 31 - 31 931 - 748 81 102 -
Aug 1,456 369 295 74 1,087 - 884 63 140 -
Sep 1,672 554 464 90 1,118 - 891 80 147 -
Oct 2,227 973 736 237 1,254 - 1,006 92 156 -
Nov 4,031 2,215 1,314 901 1,816 412 1,121 130 153 -
Dec 4,059 1,725 896 829 2,334 824 1,141 179 190 -
1943                    
Jan 7,092 3,990 1,263 2,727 3,102 780 1,788 264 270 -
Feb 6,268 3,344 1,387 1,957 2,924 720 1,347 566 291 -
Mar 8,523 4,698 2,119 2,579 3,825 629 2,033 830 333 -
Apr 12,090 7,346 2,070 5,276 4,744 724 2,331 1,255 434 -
May 18,197 12,974 5,299 7,675 5,223 713 2,670 1,474 366 -
Jun 18,574 13,379 5,627 7,752 5,195 663 3,264 952 316 -
Jul 31,536 24,338 9,957 14,381 7,198 761 4,713 1,320 404 -
Aug 27,567 19,327 7,927 11,400 8,240 647 5,724 1,505 364 -
Sep 33,586 23,986 11,295 12,691 9,600 692 7,017 1,541 350 -
Oct 29,983 19,337 11,096 8,241 10,646 1,327 6,962 2,096 261 -
Nov 32,248 19,500 12,446 7,054 12,748 2,567 7,767 2,214 200 -
Dec 38,944 24,567 17,031 7,536 14,377 2,680 9,196 2,325 176 -
1944                    
Jan 44,749 31,751 18,354 13,397 12,998 2,505 8,543 1,739 211 -
Feb 49,702 36,936 26,501 10,435 12,766 2,376 8,789 1,394 207 -
Mar 66,328 51,633 35,973 15,660 14,695 2,789 10,084 1,617 205 -
Apr 87,230 71,498 45,363 26,135 15,732 3,237 9,934 2,202 359 -
May 127,766 110,756 74,008 36,748 17,010 2,938 11,146 2,562 364 -
Jun 136,869 117,800 81,341 36,459 19,069 2,730 10,884 2,799 338 2,318
Jul 141,295 119,636 79,701 39,935 21,659 3,725 10,094 4,122 162 3,556
Aug 142,295 120,802 77.951 42,851 21,493 3,743 9,454 4,185 294 3,817
Sep 124,250 98,985 64,754 34,231 25,265 3,804 11,813 4,543 520 4,585
Oct 123,867 97,833 68,445 29,388 26,034 3,997 11,790 4,173 562 5,512
Nov 120,035 90,991 59,082 31,909 29,044 4,552 12,307 5,197 336 6,652
Dec 117,127 85,080 53,893 31,187 32,047 5,000 11,818 5,498 396 9,335
1945                  
Jan 110,382 74,089 55,448 18,641 36,293 4,717 14,133 5,495 377 11,571
Feb 154,501 118,636 78,298 40,338 35,865 4,826 11,720 5,030 469 13,820
Mar 206,481 157,516 110,025 47,491 48,965 5,312 13,553 6,16 469 23,466
Apr 188,657 139,851 91,769 48,082 48,806 4,000 12,958 4,611 609 26,628
May 111,202 54,782 43,284 11,498 56,420 4,014 14,625 3,633 637 33,511
Jun 64,974 - - - 64,974 5,600 15,845 2,467 593 40,469
Jul 68,954 - - - 68,954 7,120 9,686 1,818 532 49,798
Aug 45,121 - - - 45,121 1,901 6,909 1,039 227 35,045