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Old 22nd June 2017, 15:41
Laurent Rizzotti Laurent Rizzotti is offline
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Re: PB2Y Coronados of VPB-13 in May 1945

As twocee says, the theater vs Japan was divided in more than CBI and PTO, but into the following zones:
AL (Alaska/Aleutians): I have 33,5 claims for USAAF (from June 42 to May 43)
CBI (China/Burma/India): I have 1118,58 claims for USAAF
CP (Central Pacific: Pearl Harbor raid, Gilbert/Marshall/Mariana/Bonin Islands and raid on Japan from Iwo Jima): 430,5 USAAF claims
SWP (Southwest Pacific, actually including Philippines in 1941-42 and then late in war scoring kills from Singapore to Japan via Korea (units of SWP commands finishing the war in Okinawa): 3141,5 USAAF claims

No USN or USMC unit was based in CBI during the war, so no USN/USMC claim could be lined to CBI.

But USN/USMC kills were scored in the three other areas (AL, CP and SWP).

To take your example, USAAF claims scored by Okinawa-based units seem to be recorded under SWP, so both VP-13 claims in May 1945 should be SWP... but all former 5 VP-13 kills in 1944 should be CP.

But applying USAAF designations is probably just wrong. I tried to find USN claim statistics by theater, but while you can find detailled ones by type and by "type of base" (carrier or land), I don't find anything for location.
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