luftwaffe losses by theatre per month

[FarKenal]

Originally Posted by Juha

Hello
there are books from which You can find the answers, for ex. Williamson Murrey's but maybe this link helps http://www.lesbutler.ip3.co.uk/jg26/thtrlosses.htm

Juha

Yes, thanks for the sites, though the only question I have about this site, is there any possibility to determine a percentage of how many luftwaffe planes were destroyed by either the americans or british, ie. if 200 planes were lost on the western front in 3 months would you credit the USAAF with 50%, 66% etc, or would anything just be a wild guess.

Another thing I was trying to do was to see how many aircraft were lost in each theatre in total. And with this useful site I have can see the losses from Sep 1943 onwards, and from other sites I can see how many were lost in Poland and Norway, but for the Battle of Britain and losses straight after and up to Sep 1943, I get all these sites saying so many different loss totals, if anyone knows a fairly accurate site that'd be appreciated, and after which I'll share my findings with the rest of the board. Thanks

[Juha]

Hello FarKenal,
my advise is that You try to get Williamson Murray’s Luftwaffe, George Allen Unwin, Frome 1985. ISBN 0 04 923080 8. From it You will get most figures You needed.

I have not a slightest idea how many of the LW losses in ETO and MTO were inflicted by RAF and how many by USAAF and how many by French etc and how many were shot down by AA.

Different loss figures; maybe some have counted both damaged and destroyed a/c as losses (LW damage classification 10% and over) and some only those damaged 60% or over.

HTH
Juha