Army Air Forces in World War II

Army Air Forces Statistical Digest,
World War II

Table 49 -- Technical Training Students Under Instruction, By Type of Course: Quarterly Sep 1939 to Aug 1945

(figures are as of end of month.)

Course	1939		1940				1941				1942				1943				1944				1945
Course	Sep	Dec	Mar	Jun	Sep	Dec	Mar	Jun	Sep	Dec	Mar	Jun	Sep	Dec	Mar	Jun	Sep	Dec	Mar	Jun	Sep	Dec	Mar	Jun	Aug
Total	1,423	3,296	3,914	4,280	4,941	11,557	18,258	22,309	24,054	36,205	56,764	79,801	126,072	175,832	185,981	166,415	124,894	97,136	67,594	70,595	58,306	59,057	52,337	50,588	54,696
Officers & Officer Candidates Total	-	-	-	194	-	-	682	356	1,337	881	1,749	8,678	12,716	12,606	12,805	11,178	8,400	8,766	8,222	5,034	4,405	5,755	7,597	9,140	4,310
Administrative	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	500	6,581	9,733	8,806	5,409	3,267	3,045	2,934	2,376	965	369	258	287	329	324
Armament	-	-	-	-	-	-	84	127	333	366	386	404	470	337	271	341	37	70	577	117	209	310	341	219	119
Cold Weather Flying	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Communications	-	-	-	-	-	-	122	124	123	123	179	503	803	509	1,047	994	1,132	1,359	1,499	1,609	1,211	680	777	23	195
Cryptography	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	45	58	20	63	-	-	54	60	9	2
Emergency Rescue Boat	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	263	-	-	42	5	1	-	-	-
Engineering Total	-	-	-	194	-	-	97	-	394	201	185	641	825	1,075	1,691	2,293	1,878	1,893	1,740	711	1,170	2,162	3,347	5,884	1,153
Engineering Maintenance Cadets	-	-	-	194	-	-	97	-	-	201	185	503	-	935	1,594	1,873	1,390	1,126	980	86	594	42	-	-	-
Engineering Officer Maintenance	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	394	-	-	138	825	133	40	409	296	498	510	420	325	474	589	821	697
Flight Engineer	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	165	250	231	184	3	891	1,680	3,540	-
Pre-Flight Engineer	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	225	730	1,064	1,507	455
Weight & Balance Control	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	57	11	27	19	19	21	23	25	14	16	1
Helicopter Training	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-
Link Trainer	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	5	14	13	19	23	20	17	20	6	19	3	4
Navigator Bombardier Radar	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	96	123	116	-	-	-	-
Navigator Instructor Radar	-	-	-	-	-	-	215	-	255	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	-	-	-	-
Photography	-	-	-	-	-	-	52	105	75	37	78	93	24	137	273	334	227	126	73	730	100	39	47	43	31
Radar - Total	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	12	8	102	-	-	-	396	339	690	1,122	2,193	2,6005	2,438	2,229
Air Radar	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	198	279	200	79	33
Air Radar (MIT)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	225	1	16	33	55	50	41
Radar Air Intelligence	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	131	-	220	-	-	32	39	50
Radar Maintenance	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	3	24	10	10
Radar Observer Bomb (BTO)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	223	545	1,748	1,776	1,783	2,055
Radar Observer Night Fighter Cadets	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	209	98	189	87	72	86	83	40
Radar Observer (RCM)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	31	10	45	196	35	20	-	-
Other	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	102	-	-	-	8	6	12	61	23	412	394	-
Rescue Artic	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	9	6
Weather	-	-	-	-	-	-	112	-	157	154	420	444	847	1,635	4,100	3,891	1,741	1,949	1,439	30	73	49	114	183	247

Enlisted Men - Total	1,423	3,296	3,914	4,086	4,941	11,557	17,576	21,953	22,717	35,324	55,015	71,123	113,356	163,226	173,176	155,237	116,494	88,348	59,372	65,561	53,901	53,302	44,740	41,448	50,386
Aircraft Maintenance	901	1,948	2,448	2,735	3,402	8,730	12,633	14,765	14,102	23,241	37,703	53,625	66,974	90,768	99,064	76,128	55,253	41,210	19,652	20,189	14,350	17,206	17,886	24,990	25,460
Armament	130	273	292	238	217	369	852	1,449	2,364	3,521	3,969	4,350	10,083	12,785	14,991	14,588	11,699	10,225	9,689	7,155	6,179	3,912	2,359	3,668	4,077
Communications	177	579	662	729	663	1,756	3,199	4,241	4,587	6,783	10,084	10,626	26,426	44,141	42,403	42,092	37,286	27,148	24,889	33,147	26,135	14,126	16,798	6,757	9,800
Emergency Rescue Boat	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	54	-	-	-	-	-	52	-	-	14	23	-	-	-
Photography	72	102	111	79	84	145	128	99	319	247	355	396	2,084	2,493	2,688	1,596	1,141	751	475	273	424	625	458	710	1,733
Radar	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	323	362	362	1,851	1,955	-	-	1,905	3,274	4,231	6,262	7,368	6,721	4,166	4,079
Weather	17	29	69	-	196	180	200	426	409	552	671	-	1,682	1,647	6,484	9,693	5,939	4,873	1,222	57	-	131	98	116	345
Other	126	365	332	305	379	377	564	973	936	980	1,910	1,710	5,745	9,541	5,591	11,140	5,176	2,184	171	509	537	9,911	420	1,041	4,892