That seems like an unusual number of strategic bombers. I mean, I could probably build all that stuff, I'm just wondering where that figure comes from? And what conversion of aircraft to STR wings are you using?
I actually pegged the USAAF as having more INT until the Mustang came online, but we can't "upgrade" wings between types, so it makes sense to build MR.
I have a pdf on my hardrive entitled "Air Force Combat Units of WWII". I downloaded it from the Office of Air Force History (I think). At any rate, they were the authors, dated 1983 in Washington DC.
In short, to make it clear, The USAAF was organised in squadrons, groups, wings, commands and the 16 air forces. In that order. So, in that thinking, the AF were HOI Army Groups, the Commands were armies, the wings were corps (or, in the game, an assembly of a number of groups). so what we use as, say, a 3-tac unit, would be a medium Bombardment Wing, composed of Bombardment Groups.
I have used groups as my basis.
To paraphrase the history chapter:
By end 1943, there were 269 groups. 133 were in the US: 77 were being manned or in training (so they were in the queu), 56 were the strategic reserve and CONUS defense.
Reorganisation saw that number drop to 218 by 1944.
By 1945, it had risen again to 243: 148 in Europe/Africa/Middle East, 86 were in the Pacific.
In 1941 there were 67 groups, consisting of:
26 bombers (half heavy, the rest medium and light): 13 strat, about 13 tac and cas)
26 pursuit (fighters)
6 transports
By spring of 1945, there were the following:
25 very heavy groups (B-24)
72 heavy (B-17)
20 medium (tac)
8 light (cas)
71 fighters (I think most of them would have been converted to Mustangs, so those would have been mostly M/R)
29 transports
13 recon
5 compostite.
The recon are not represented in the game and I don't know what to make of the Composite Groups, so I have elected to ignore those
The PDF then continues to list every group and every wing, along with their deployment history and such more.
