Moggy
I see in Trumper’s post above he talks of 30,000 Americans who died while flying from the UK. The website I’ve noted below which contains the “Army Air Forces Statistical Digest, World War II” says … [and I’m quoting here the United States Strategic Bombing Survey of Sep 30, 1945 re European Theatre of operations]
[quote] In the attack by Allied air power, almost 2,700,000 tons of bombs were dropped, more than 1,440,000 bomber sorties and 2,680,000 fighter sorties were flown. The number of combat planes reached a peak of some 28,000 and at the maximum 1,300,000 men were in combat commands. The number of men lost in air action was 79,265 Americans and 79,281 British. (Note: All RAF statistics are preliminary or tentative.) More than 18,000 American and 22,000 British planes were lost or damaged beyond repair. [unquote]
Now this is referring to the European theatre which would undoubtedly therefore include Italian and other Mediterranean bases, but even so the numbers don’t seem very “line-ball” as they say.
How sure of what you posted are you Trumper?
http://www.usaaf.net/digest/operations.htm
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