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Re: totals Bomber Command losses in West 1942
Chorley is only counting losses of units belonging to Bomber Command or attached to it (OTU, HCU) and will include some MTO losses for 1942, but very few (for example, two aircraft of 138 Sqn detached to MTO for clandestine operations and destroyed at Malta in early 1942).
If you take the figures in the 1942 losses book, these will include losses of front-line units (including non operational losses) and losses of OTU suffered in Bomber Command raids (especially the 1000-bomber operations). It won't cover all OTU operational losses (the patrols over the Bay of Biscay under Coastal Command are not there), and will exclude also the Coastal Command losses suffered during Bomber Command raids (again for the 1000-bomber operations). Units of Bomber Command detached to Coastal Command won't be included also (for example, 61 Sqn lost several Lancasters in such service during the summer of 1942).
The figure of missing aircraft displayed above is for the aircraft that did crash outside England (in Europe, ditched in the sea or went missing), so operational losses were higher than that.
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