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Re: RAF Cat.2 during BoB
Hello Shikhov
Just for info, Mason's oppinion was according to his article Battle of Britain in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aviation Vol. 4 (1979) that FC lost during BoB 922 a/c destroyed, 298 damaged, 406 pilots + crew members Killed, 13 MIA+PoW and 295 wounded
LW numbers were 1767, 570, 1449, 1914 and 530.
But there are newer studies on the subject, for ex. Battle of Britain Then and Now Mk V.
How many of FC losses were by Bf 109s varied day by day, just out of curiousity checked A. Price's The Hardest Day -book on 180840 combats, my rough calculation from the RAF loss table in the book produced a following result (it incl. both damaged and destroyed FC planes)
Shot down or dam. by Bf 109s 22
Shot down or dam. by other LW planes 15
Reason Unclear 12
Lost or or dam. in accidents (incl. one own goal) 4
On ground 18
The day was untypical at least because of high number of ground losses and because of the very high intensivity of combat, but maybe otherwise normal. There were also a number of ground losses of other commands' planes which I have left out.
HTH
Juha
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