I wonder if anyone has checked if the numbers within the article itself agree. From the same USSBS No.59:
S/E fighters accepted by the GAF in 1944 ... [month by month] sum=25 921 (max in September = 3031).
This is almost the same as in RL2-VI/199: 25 914 Neubau (Bf109 (incl. close recce versions) + FW190 (incl. ground attack versions) + Ta152 + Me163).
But after a few paragraphs , the statement follows:
The claimed production of some 36,000 single-engine fighter aircraft in the year 1944 greatly exceeds the number of aircraft which can be accounted for in Luftwaffe units and by records of losses.
If ~26 000 were actually produced, and not 36 000, the problem of "disappeared" S/E fighters looks different.
The statement in the USSBS that a total of 39 000 of all operational types of aircraft were produced in 1944 also does not correspond to the statement about 36 000 S/E fighters.
Maybe 36 000 = 3000 (September's peak) x 12.
I'm using the online version of USSBS-59:
https://dracobooks.com/The%20Defeat%...r%20Force.html
Is a usual copy without OCR available?
There is a reference in the text to a German document "Averages of actual strength and monthly losses of aircraft and crews". What is this document and is it available now?
Best regards,
Andrey