Axis fighters lost to Allied bombers

[Graham Boak]

My understanding was that the number of fighters brought down during the Schweinfurt raid, and attributable to bomber gunners, was six. This suggests that the figure should not be 10% but considerably less. I believe I have seen 2-5% suggested, for massive daylight raids. I've seen no similar figure for night missions, but because of the 1-on-1 nature I would expect it to be nearer the dayfighter average of about one in three.

It would be interesting to see a good analysis, but attempting to compile a reasonably accurate wartime total would be a massive, and thankless, task.