It is SAID that more pilots died during training than died in combat during WW2. Is this true?
Is there a compilation somewhere?
How can it be split between Fighter, Bomber Commands, Coastal et al commands - when it is unknown where pilots under training were going to be assigned?

What was the role of the Duty Pilot when so assigned on a Fighter Squadron during WW2? On what basis were Duty Pilots so assigned? My father a Sgt.Pilot was Duty Pilot with 234 squadron when 'sent up' on his own to join the rest of his flight who had got involved in a scrap with some Me109's. In my ...