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Re: Ship losses to aircraft
It seems to me that the last antishipping missions flown by the Luftwaffe were flown from Norway against Artic convoys in March or April 1945, and AFAIK the last ship sunk by the Luftwaffe was the SS Henry Bacon on 23 February 1945.
Between UK and Antwerp, Allied ships were lost to pocket submarines, S-boats and mines but I have never heard of an air attack against them in 1945.
Regarding the heavy losses to air attack during the spring of 1941, I think a good part of them were lost in British ports during the Blitz, but I also suspect that the heavy shipping losses off Greece are included into this total. My impression is that the table is showing Allied shipping losses not in the Atlantic (even including N Sea and Channel) but in all theaters.
Actually I wonder if the losses to air attack in April and May 1945 were not caused by kamikazes off Okinawa...
Edited: The loss of Feb 45 is the Henry Bacon. The loss in Jan 45 should be the Alcoa Banner, bombed by German jets (Ar 234 of KG 76?) in Antwerp on 24 Jan 45 and declared total loss later. So I was wrong, there was at least one air attack in Antwerp area in 1945.
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