US Strategic Bombing Survey No59 - a questionable statement about 1-seat fighters production

[ArtieBob]

Dear Andrey,

I have been pretty busy lately and I also cannot locate the scan files of the documents I have discussed with you.
My wife and I will be out of the USA for a few months and during that time, I will not have access to material other
than what I have on my computer. So what I am doing is sending a summary sheet which gives month by month totals of
Bf 109, FW 190 as reported in the C-Amt Monatsmeldung and the totals distributed as reported the Flug-
zeugverteilung. Hopefully that will give you the basic information you have requested.
1944 1945
Production Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
Bf 109 Neubau 932 715 804 1006 1055 1120 1237 1430 1511 1503 1312 1086 1266
FW 190 Neubau 383 301 573 690 841 554 752 930 855 678 997 1248 982
Neubau(Schlacht) (1) 390 515 511 536 413 294 (1) 367

Me 262 Neubau 5 19 52 101 125 160
Distribution
Bf 109 Neubau 642 634 629 685 970 1151 1105 926 1105 1488 1279 996 1189 862 615
Rep. 338 176 221 232 257 398 412 445 412 326 348 378 309 48 14
FW 190 Neubau 204 160 305 531 410 552 751 862 751 671 990 906 843 443 219
Rep. 162 49 68 130 72 144 179 159 179 79 210 181 195 21 6
Neubau(Schlacht) 93 (3) 282 252 322 390 511 472 499 403 293 311 365 303 384
Rep.(Schlacht) 11 (3) 32 16 46 67 73 58 54 113 168 99 154 89 88

Me 262 Neubau 51 78 114 148 212 231
Me 262 Rep. 1 3 17 14 11 8

Not included: Me 163, Ta 152, and He 162 as these came very late and in small numbers, but if you really want them,
I have incomplete data for them.

My opinion, since the Production and Distribution numbers for a given type and month are never the same, they must
come from different source documents. However, the order of magnitude stays about the same, and although all
quantities are subject to many kinds of errors, my sense is they are the best we probably have available. I eventually
will compare this information against some other raw data I have and see if it appears there are inflated production
numbers during late war.

Best Regards,

Artie Bob


Note (1) Jan-May and Dec 44 FW 190-Fighter and Schlacht Nuebau production totals combined.

Note (2) When posting, columns will not remained aligned. To align numbers, start from right side. C-Amt rows (production)
end in Jan 45, Flugzeugverteilung (distribution) rows end in Mar 45.


Note (3) Data Missing.