[twocee]

They may well be correct. What I said is that there appears to be no means of verification, such as tracking the serial numbers in the case of US aircraft, and so it is better to say the "losses admitted" were such and such, rather than saying the "losses were". It is also not clear what the admitted loss figure does and does not contain. Does it include aircraft that returned to base but did not fly again on account of damage? I don't know. I think it unlikely that the true figures will ever be known.