Number of Luftwaffe sorties flown 22 June 1941

[Mirek Wawrzynski]

Accroding Soviet sources over South-Western Front (since 19.0641 former KOSO), German had done about 400 sorties, such amout was registered.

So it is possible (pure my estimation) that German could done about 500 to no more than 600 sorties by whole first day, or only this 400 (below line)?
It was not main attack direction so the amout of sorties was also less.

LW had attacked about 22-23 Soviet airfields (if right remember) in this direction. On Wester Front was attacked, as right remeber 66 or 67 mostly border airfields.

So this also shows much weaker works of LW's units over this second part of battelfield.

Similar smaller amout of sorties could be done on Northern Front about 400-600 - it is my again specualtion, of course.

I think that, again my pure specualtion, total amout of LW's sorties on 22.06.41 could be between 3500-4000. The most were done over Western Front by unit of Luftflotte 2.



Regards,
mirekw