Sorties vs Ships Sunk

[Carl Schwamberger]

Continuing some earlier research, I am trying to identify the relationship between the number of aircraft sorties and ships sunk. Some interesting data afor the Channel battle of summer 1940 turned up, which was my focus then. Now for comaprison I'm searching for sources/data for other battles: Norway, Crete, the central Med surrounding Malta, ect... any refrences, data, or discussion would be welcome

Thanks

[Juha]

Hello Carl
You might find some info from Christina J.M. Goulter's A Forgotten Offensive. Royal Air Force Coastal Command's Anti-Shipping Campaign, 1940-1945 (1995)

Juha

[Carl Schwamberger]

Thanks for that. anyone else have a recomendation, or data?

[Nick Beale]

Two that I read many years ago:

"The Ship Busters" by Ralph Barker
"Night Strike from Malta" by Kenneth Poolman

[Adam]

Off the top of my head:

Hitler's Northern War by Adam Claasen
Hurricats by Ralph Baker
Eagle in Flames by Ted Hooten
Luftwaffe Aerial Torpedo Aircraft and Operations of WWII Harold Thiele
Chronology at the War at Sea by Jürgen Rohwer
Der einsatz der deutschen Luftwaffe über dem Atlantik und Nordsee, 1939 - 1945 by Sönke Neitzel
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 in the Battle for Sicily by Andrew Arthy
Fledgling Eagles by Chris Shores

[DavidIsby]

The best documented studies, I believe, were by the US in the Pacific and CBI theatres. These were at the Naval Operational Archives in Washington but may have now gone to the National Archives.

OPERATIONS RESEARCH IN THE RAF, the older volume, includes some of the use of OR in anti-ship tactics that may be able to point you to studies at Kew.

The most efficient anti-shipping attack of the European war was, to my knowledge, the German one that sank two of their own destroyers in 1939.

[Nick Beale]

Also, this one.