Re: Leskovac, YU/SB, 6 September 1944, 15th AF mission
 

Thanks Stig and Geoff. Looks like a couple of sites have the dates wrong (and therefore the mission numbers, Drain's 5BW list for the 97th has no.347 on the 6th.--when they had no mission---and 348 on the 8th.); the dates don't tally with 15thaf.org.
I'll stop now before I'm really confused.


Regards
Nick

Re: Leskovac, YU/SB, 6 September 1944, 15th AF mission
 

In the case of the Leskovac September 6 bombing, there were some 260 short tons dropped, and more than 1000 civilian casualties. That makes a rather high ratio of 4 killed per ton.

By comparison, in all Allied bombings of Belgrade, there were some 2750 short tons dropped, with some 1400 civilian casualties - an average of 0,5 killed per ton.
Though, this average varied quite a lot, in some cases there were no civilian casualties, while in others there were hundreds.

Re: Leskovac, YU/SB, 6 September 1944, 15th AF mission
 

Geffrey Sinclair has the following question

Casualties means killed/wounded/injured, how many were reported killed, how many wounded/injured?


B Rgds
Stig