Strength
In 1940 the Japanese Army Air Service consisted of the following:
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- 33,000 personnel
- Over 1,600 aircraft (including 1,375 first line combat aircraft).
- The aircraft were organized into 85 Squadrons;
- 36 fighter
- 28 light bomber
- 22 medium bomber
- Total military in August 1945 was 6,095,000 including 676,863 Army Air Service.
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Famous quotes containing the word strength:
“For my people lending their strength to the years: to the gone
years and the now years and the maybe years, washing ironing cooking scrubbing sewing mending hoeing plowing digging planting pruning patching dragging along never gaining never reaping never knowing and never understanding;”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)
“Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained.”
—John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
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—Audre Lorde (1934–1992)