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Title: Pretty Interesting
Post by: loony1 on September 29, 2014, 11:38:42 AM

Looking through this is pretty interesting and insightful.
http://www.alternatewars.com/BBOW/BBOW_Index.htm (http://www.alternatewars.com/BBOW/BBOW_Index.htm)

Title: Re: Pretty Interesting
Post by: Slate on September 30, 2014, 02:25:56 PM

   There is a lot of different info there.   :aok Just a snippet from WW2.........

Chance-Vought F4U Corsair Family

Kills:

2,140 x Enemy aircraft destroyed by F4Us

Losses:

189 x F4Us lost to enemy aircraft
349 x F4Us shot down by AA
230 x F4Us lost to “other” causes
692 x F4Us lost on non-combat flights
164 x F4Us lost in crashes on carriers or airfields     
1,624 x Total F4U Losses in WWII

Sorties (From 13 February 1942 to V-J Day):

54,470 x Operational Sorties from Land Bases
9,581 x Operational Sorties from Carriers           
64,051 x Total Operational Sorties

Reference:
Vought F4U Corsair by Martin W. Bowman; Crowood Press.

Grumman F6F Hellcat Family

Kills (August 1943 to August 1945)

4,948 Japanese Aircraft by Carrier based Hellcats
208 x Japanese Aircraft by Land-Based Hellcats
47 x Japanese Aircraft by Royal Navy Hellcats
13 x German Aircraft by USN/Royal Navy Hellcats     
5,216 x Total Enemy Aircraft destroyed by F6Fs

Losses (August 1943 to August 1945)
270 x F6F lost to enemy aircraft

Reference:
Hellcat: The F6F in World War II by Barrett Tillman

Title: Re: Pretty Interesting
Post by: loony1 on October 03, 2014, 03:46:20 PM

It is amazing, looking at many of the stats from WWII, to see how many plains were shot down or lost.