WW II Training During the 1930s the number of pilots trained in teh Air Corps decreased until 1937 when only 184 pilots graduated that year. Facing German and Japanese militarism, the Air Corps planned to train 4,500 pilots in 1939-1940.

Lacking adequate facilities, the Air Corps contracted with nine commercial flying schools. When France fell in 1940 the Air Corps increased the number of pilots trained to 7,000 yearly. By 1943, 63 flying schools were contracted. 

By the end of the war, 250,000 pilots had graduated from USAAF schools.