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Re: Huge Luftwaffe Victories over USAAF?
Planes that crashed in friendly territory were not counted as lost (in the sense of being missing), but as damaged beyond repair, if applicable. The numbers are shown for each raid of the 8th Air Force in the USAAF official chronology.
Bomber Command did the same, the number of bombers lost each night didn't include bombers that crashed or were scrapped on return.
As for huge Luftwaffe victories, they scored most of them in the early years of the war but then had not so much luck, so when USAAF arrived the good years were gone for Germany. Even against bombers, if you have one example with a "kill ratio" of 10 to 1 in a battle in German favor, I will be surprised. Heavy bombers were not easy targets, and even the armored fighters of the Sturmgruppen suffered from bomber return fire.
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