Those guys usually pass unnoticed, but definately everyone recognizes the value of them and their working installations (maintenence parks and things of the sort). At least for the US and British mechanic, how much time it took for a mechanic to complete it's training and be assigned to an airbase? I suppose that air forces picked up a lot of automobile mechanics when recruting people for this sort of work...
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davebender
1st Lieutenant
Depends on his job specialty. They weren't all the same. You've got aircraft mechanics, sheet metal mechanics, aviation electricians, armorers etc.
Shortround6
Major General
you are thinking too logically.
My Father had gone to an aviation school for 6 months to be a mechanic in 1940, He worked for Sikorsky on flying boats and Chance-Vaught on the Corsair production line. When his aircraft deferment ran out he joined the Marines, the service using the most Corsairs at the time. On Completion of basic training they made him a signalman. You figure it out.
My Father had gone to an aviation school for 6 months to be a mechanic in 1940, He worked for Sikorsky on flying boats and Chance-Vaught on the Corsair production line. When his aircraft deferment ran out he joined the Marines, the service using the most Corsairs at the time. On Completion of basic training they made him a signalman. You figure it out.
davebender
1st Lieutenant
I am thinking about how things work in logically organized military forces. Perhaps that doesn't apply to the WWII era USMC. 
