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Re: Huge Luftwaffe Victories over USAAF?
Loss statistics are an entire world of it's own. Some stats show you all losses, other only the ones caused by the enemy, but not the ones which had to be written off after RTB due to heavy damage from enemy fire...
As for Allied losses, for obvious reasons, only the number of bombers lost over enemy territory (ie. known to the enemy) were announced to the public (via a radio station in Deventry). Bombers that crashed etc in England were not, to deny such an intelligence source to the enemy - hence the term Deventry figures for those stats that do not contain the complete losses.
As I recall the Brits announced to public ca 8000 bombers lost as 'deventry figures', but the actual number was 10 000+, when including those ones that fell off over England or the sea, or were so badly damaged that they were written off.
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