![]() ![]() More than 100,000 planes destroyed in war USA TODAY reached out to social media users who shared the claim for comment. The post, which doesn't cite a source for the two figures, accrued more than 2,000 likes within a week. But the claim is wrong. Special access for subscribers! Click here to sign up for our fact-check text chat 14 Instagram post from the page Books of Fact. ![]() ![]() of Planes Destroyed in WWII - 76,875," reads text in a Dec. produced more than 300,000 military aircraft between 19.Ī popular claim on social media falsely claims the number of airplanes on Earth today is only a fraction of those destroyed during the war. Operating factories 24 hours per day and six or seven days per week, the U.S. World War II was a period of unprecedented industrial productivity in the U.S., especially in the aerospace industry. Watch Video: Navy veteran, 101, recalls Pearl Harbor attack The claim: 76,875 planes were destroyed in WWII and there are 23,600 airplanes on Earth today ![]()
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