[drgondog]

Agree your points Paul - Not sure how Don Caldwell extracted KIA/MIA statistics but his table does itemize the t/e and single engine fighter losses by type within unit in detail throughout the book - in what looks like excel formatted tables (like my own). I suspect that unless he was maintaining two sets of 'books' to differentiate the t/e and s/e crew fatalities that it would be very difficult to separate them.

The only point I am making about Caldwell's sortie statistics is the incredibly steep gradient in the Feb-May timeframe for LW Sorties vs US Fighters is that the gradient for losses due to Mustangs was equally steep despite proportionately fewer Mustang sorties when compared to P-47.