Re: Aircraft Losses

"jbeck" <jNOSPAMbeck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am hoping one of you well versed individuals can help. I am looking for
two things:

1) Casualty rates for aircrew (Allied primarily...Axis would be a bonus)
in
all theaters. Specifically, number killed and/or wounded from training,
combat...throughout the war. What was the overall casualty rate of all
who
pilots, co pilots, etc...


Second attempt! Finger trouble!


From: The Right of the Line by John Terraine

On May 1, 1945 the Royal Air Force had on charge 9,200 aircraft;
it numbered, in all theatres, 1,079,835 officers, men and women,
including those from the Dominions and allied forces serving with it.***
Of this total 193,313 were aircrew-a greater number than
its whole strength in 1939. Forty-six percent of the pilots
came from the Dominions; the total Dominion aircrew contribution for
all theatres, 1939-45, was 134,000, out of a grand total of 340,000.
The WAAF had reached its peak of recruitment to the other ranks in
1943, but its officer requirement came to its peak in January 1945:
6,355: they were distributed across 15 types of duty, ranging from
catering to meteorology, codes and cyphers, Intelligende, Security and
Operations Rooms.

From first to last, 1939-45 the Royal Air Force lost 70,253 officers,
NCOs and airmen killed or missing on operations, the overwhelming
majority of them being aircrew. This was the price of its victory, and
of it by far the largest share fell to Bomber Command between
September 1939 and May 1945: 47,268. This great number is the
grim total of those lost on operations; it was the unique hazard of the
airman's trade that a further 8,305 Bomber Command aircrew lost
their lives in non-operational flying-training or accident. In addition
1,570 ground crew [RAF and WAAF] were killed or lost their lives
from other causes during that period, making a full total of 57,143.
The aircrew total, 55,573, has special significance; in the First World
War the officer losses of the British Empire included 38,834 killed.

*** By June 1944 there were 31 Allied Squadrons in the home
Commands; 12 Polish, 7French, 4 Czech, 4 Norwegian, 2 Belgian
and 2 Dutch; a further 20 French, 3 Greek, 1 Dutch, 1 Polish and
1 Yugoslav squadrons were serving in overseas Commands


Robert

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