 | The Best Bomber of WWII: #4| Aviation Discuss The Best Bomber of WWII: #4 in the World War II - Aviation forums; ok sys i did want you want, it took me several hours but i did it!
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01-13-2006, 03:07 PM
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#31 | | Master of Ewes
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ok so you stated over Europe the B-24 did 715 sorties from january 1st 1942 'til june 30th 1943 for 24 lost, i make that a loss rate of 3.4% agreed?
well, the lancaster, in the above time period (although her first opperational was in March '42) completed, accounting for day and night sorties, 17,100 sorties exactily, and 585 were lost, believe it or not, that comes out as 3.4% too 
however i had this feeling you were going to say that's just because the lanc flew by night, so i calculated the the figures for the lancaster's daytime operations for the same period (1st jan. '42 - 30th June '43)...........
just to clarify by a daytime sortie is considdered one in which the aircraft is dispatched at returns in the same day...........
and so for this period the lanc did 382 daytime sorties for 13 aircraft lost, believe it or not but AGAIN that comes out to a loss rate of 3.4%
but as i was on a role, i thought why stop at the daytime sorties for that period? why not do the whole war?
so i did!
and i can confirm that throughout the entire war the lancaster did 40,139 daytime sorties! and only 281 were lost on these daytime raids, you know what that makes the lancaster's loss rate for daytime sorties in WWII?? 0.7% !!!!
also considder that by '42 the B-24 had several years development, the lanc was in service in it's first mark with no problems and needed no adjustments!
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01-13-2006, 03:57 PM
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01-13-2006, 04:16 PM
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#34 | | Master of Ewes
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01-13-2006, 05:20 PM
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| I will trust his figures. I find it intresting that the loss rate was equal. Next I will look at the figures for Jul 1 1943 to Dec 31 1943.
And the B24 first flew in 1940, with low rate production starting in 1941. No B24 groups were in the UK untill late 1942, and even then it was only two groups through out the first half of 1943.
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| Excellent posting Lanc and very interesting results. | |
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01-13-2006, 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by syscom3 And the B24 first flew in 1940, with low rate production starting in 1941. No B24 groups were in the UK untill late 1942, and even then it was only two groups through out the first half of 1943. | And at that point bomber command was taking the brunt of the Luftwaffe...
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01-14-2006, 01:45 AM
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#39 | | Master of Ewes
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and i'm sorry but it may take me a while to get many figures like that again, i've got a major bit of coursework to do for the next two weeks so anytime i'm not on here i'll be doing that................
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| The reason I had you post the results of 1942 was to show that there were so few B24 sorties, there really wasnt any meaningfull comparison between the two. I think that the 2nd half of 1943 and first half of 1944 is when we can begin t make meaningfull comparisions.
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#41 | | Master of Ewes
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and what do you think of the lanc's use in daytime now?
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01-14-2006, 11:42 AM
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| I couldnt have said that without having data to presume it. I though there were far more B24 missions in the 8th than there were. One thing that struck me on the B24 missions in 1942, was even though my source said "group" sorties, in actuality, only 1/4 to 1/3 of the planes went on the mission(s).
The day loss rate was interesting. But I think we will start see a big difference in data from the last part of 1943 onwards. Once the 8th was going on regular mssions deep into Germany, the loss rates went way up.
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Originally Posted by syscom3 I will continue to post things about this as its opened all sorts of variables on what made both planes so great. | Sometimes, but most of the time it leads you back to the same crap.
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