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Originally Posted by Kurfürst
The '60% lost' figure is also nice, save for it appears to be a smokescreen for the fact that overall, the losses were not particularly heavy by any standard - we`re speaking of a period of five months here, which works out to 60 bombers lost per month, of which about 40-50 lost per month to enemy action over Britain. That`s considerably less than the losses suffered between July-October 1940, and quite miniscule compared to the big picture. Bomber Command lost as many, or even twice as many during single raids over Germany, rather than a month..
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This is weird logic as the LW didn't have the a/c to spare while the RAF did. Would say the real smokescreen is the RAF numbers shot down.
LW bomber losses:
Jan 44 loss rate was 7.8%
Feb - 5.2%
March - 8.3%
April - 8.7%
For comparison, RAF BC losses for the same months:
Jan 44 loss rate was 5.6%
in Feb - 5.2%
in March - 3.6%
in April - 2.6%