[Adriano Baumgartner]

Simon,

If memory does not fail me "Middlebrook's works" did have some kind of statistic behind its massive information and first hand accounts. This is not 100% what you are looking for (Steinbock raids), but can gives you an overall picture.

Of course, statistics varied during the war years and stiffening (or not) of the defences...so maybe you will need more precise data (guess unavailable) for the period in question you are looking for (RAF versus LW KG units versus USAAC - 8th AF for instance).

If you have not read yet, I do recommend "Bomber Command War Diaries" from Middlebrook and another historian, whose name I forgot by heart now.

There was even a study about the % of crews that survived bailing out from Lancasters or Halifaxex and Stirlings. The chance of survival if one had to bail out from those machines. I have read it somewhere and quoted on the biography of a Bomber Command Wing Commander and CO, but do not have it now at hands.

Maybe you could, in the futur and your coming book, add something about the survival probability and chances for each LW sub-type of bombers used on Steinbock campaign. It would be a good suggestion and welcomed.

I guess that at least one member of this board is writing about the BAEDEKER RAIDS or to publish something about.

Humbly yours,
Adriano