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XIII
HOURS FLOWN
Notwithstanding the termination of the WASP program when many WASPs had been [[strikethrough]] operational duty for only a few weeks, the WASPs as a whole put in more hours in operational duties than they did in training. They paid their way, so far as the program was concerned, by flying in the aggregate approximately 60 million miles on operational duties, or about 2,500 times around the earth at the equator. The WASPs averaged 33 hours of flying per month subsequent to assignment to operations. The monthly average varied as to commands and air forces as follows:
Training Command (operations) 41.5 hours
Air Transport Command 28.2 hours
First, Second, Third and Fourth Air Forces 35.5 hours

The average could also be broken down into types of service, as follows:
Target towing 36.2 hours
Ferrying 28.2 hours
Operational and Administrative 44.3 hours.

The ferry work was done practically altogether by daylight. Most of the other operational activities were done by day and night. WASPs were fully utilized on operational duties within 8 months from the time they started training.

XIV
ACCIDENTS
During the life of the WASP program there were 402 airplane accidents. Thirty-Five (35) of these, or 9% of the total, were fatal accidents. Among AAF male flyers during the same period 11% of all accidents were fatal

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