Excerpt from Army Air Arsenal and Navy Air Depots: Corporation Report No. XIX, (Airframes and Engines) From January 1941 through August 1945 the Army and Navy Depots produced a total of aircraft and engines, accounting for percent of total Japanese airframe production and 5 percent of total engine production. Airframe production at the depots was low at the start of the war, totaling 9 in December 1941, but rose during 1942 and 1943, reaching a peak of 138 in December 1943 (figure The December 1943 production constituted 6 percent of the production of the entire industry for that month Thereafter until the end of the war, the trend was downward. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.