"In four years of war, almost eight thousand airmen from Britain, Australia, Canada and the United States were shot down and killed, taken prisoner, or wounded in action." [1]

  

  

German aviators reported over 7700 kills and destroyed over 614 balloons. All the while, 3128 German planes never made it back home, with over 4500 pilots dying in combat and about 2000 of them dying in crashes at home. With over 47.000 planes the German industry produced the majority of aircrafts (90%) of the central powers. At the end of the war, 26.000 of those had been destroyed, wrecked or deemed unfit for service. While this might be a huge number, the Germans were never able to reach more than a third of allied production. This is highlights by Professor Hans-Joachim Braun.

  

   

   

  

Compiled by Jan-Philipp Birkhoff and Etienne Ludwig.