Lw-losses without enemy actions!

[Andreas Brekken]

Hi.

Up and until January 10th 1945, the numbers are:

Combat losses flying units:
KIA: 23132 (of these 4341 are officers)
WIA: 16567 (of these 3000 are officers)
MIA: 26153 (of these 4227 are officers)
POW: 4104 (of these 767 are officers)

Non-combat losses flying units:
KIA: 10387 (of these 1284 are officers)
WIA: 4815 (of these 676 are officers)
MIA: 347 (of these 35 are officers)

Schools and other units:
KIA: 9303 (of these 803 are officers)
WIA: 6067 (of these 477 are officers)
MIA: 266 (of these 28 are officers)


and so on and so on for Flak, Ground personnel, etc

coming to a grand total of:

Reported Luftwaffe personnel losses from 01.09.1393 to 10.01.1945:
KIA: 112493 (of these 8996 are officers)
WIA: 212701 (of these 9??? are officers document damaged)
MIA: 152934 (of these 7643 are officers)
POW: 8995 (of these 904 are officers)



Aircraft losses:
Combat losses flying units:
Damaged: 20492 (of these 820 are training and other non-firstline aircraft)
Destroyed: 40613 (of these 1774 are training and other non-firstline aircraft)

Non-combat losses flying units:
Damaged: 15171 (of these 1614 are training and other non-firstline aircraft)
Destroyed: 10457 (of these 1043 are training and other non-firstline aircraft)

Schools and other units:

Damaged: 9931 (of these 5537 are firstline aircraft)
Destroyed: 12442 (of these 5059 are firstline aircraft)

It is possible to add the additional data up until March 1945 from existing data.

Regards,
Andreas

[Jens]

According to Overmans losses of Luftwaffe in WW2 were 430.000 KIA.

[Boandlgramer]

According to A.Galland/K.Ries/ R.Ahnert in "Die Deutsche Luftwaffe" (Karl Müller Verlag) the Luftwaffe lost 1939-44 = 96 917 dead, wounded and missing.
i guess thats just the flying personal of the Luftwaffe.
probable not counted are the Luftwaffe Felddivisionen and the Flakpersonal.

[Jens]

It is the flying personal, compare with Bekker: Angriffshöhe 4000.

[Boomerang]

As per previous post in this thread, my very old copy of The Luftwaffe War Diaries states total aircrew losses from 1 Sept 1939 - 31 Dec 1944 as 96,917. This figure comprises:

60,102 killed and missing in operational units
9,521 killed and missing in training units
21,301 wounded and injured in operational units
5,993 wounded and injured in training units

Definitely no flak/field division/ground personnel/etc losses in the above figures. The Luftwaffe Quartermaster General is given as the source.

Unfortunately there is no breakdown of the losses in operational units into combat and non-combat categories.

Boomerang