Supply by air in Burma

From a symposium THE RAF AND THE FAR EAST WAR 1941-1945.
"Finally here is a statistic which may surprise you. From the spring
of 1944 until May 1945 supplies dropped to the army in Burma were
609,717 tons. During the same period, bombs dropped on Germany
and occupied Western Europe were 54,700 tons." Delivering the needed quantities of supplies overland was impossible so bulldozers were delivered in gliders and used to build airstrips that C--47's could use.

Your figures for bomb tonnage dropped on Western Europe has to be way off.

Just the USAAF dropped 188,563 tons of bombs on Germany alone from the 1st of Jan. 1945 till wars end.
The RAF dropped 191,540 tons in the same period.
If you took those figures from May of 44, and included the whole of Western Europe, both figures would no doubt increase by a factor of at least 2 if not greater.

tyrodtom said:

Your figures for bomb tonnage dropped on Western Europe has to be way off.

Just the USAAF dropped 188,563 tons of bombs on Germany alone from the 1st of Jan. 1945 till wars end.
The RAF dropped 191,540 tons in the same period.
If you took those figures from May of 44, and included the whole of Western Europe, both figures would no doubt increase by a factor of at least 2 if not greater.

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Correct.

I still think this presentation is apt. I haven't watched this one through and through, but I've watched her on other channels and she's got good dope.