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Old 10th March 2006, 16:46
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Re: The Il-2 role in Eastern Front

"Non combat" losses in the VVS included aircraft which were simply worn out or considered too old and scrapped, and this explains for a large part why the figures of non combat soviet losses are so high...

Here is an example, however incomplete of the way the losses were counted :

http://my.tele2.ee/airacesww2/airace...losses1944.htm

By the way, to judge correctly the level of Il-2 losses, it would be necessary to compare them with the number of sorties achieved : e.g. : AFAIK, the loss per sortie rate was (very) much higher in 1942 than in 1944 while overall losses were lower...

Hope this can help,

Kolya.
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