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Originally Posted by stasoid  Cool show!! Nicely done!
But, felt a little bit bored after several episodes. Looks like a one-sided story or too much of propaganda: Americans fighting alone and always win... Is that accurate? Is that how it was?
I heard that over 75% of its aircrafts Luftwaffe lost on Eastern Front. Just curious if we ever see that part. |
Highly doubtful that even 25% of Luftwaffe losses were on Eastern front. From early the mid 1943 the Luftwaffe started shifting Fighter units from Ost and LuftFlotte 2 to re-organize into Channel Front and Germany.
Just daylight fighter adjustments - by May 1943
In the east, JG 54 remained stable, keeping Stab., I.and II., losing III. and 10. and 11. Staffel.. JG3 lost Stab. and I. ... JG 52 lost I. ... - all lost to east or south and redeployed to West.
By May 1944 the`following units were pulled back from East and south to Austria and Germany
LuftFlotte Reich added
III./JG1, III.and IV./JG3, I. and II./G5, Stab. and III. and 10. Staffel/G11, II. and III. and IV./JG27, II./JG53, III./JG54, JG300, JG301, JG 302, JG 400
LuftFlotte 3 added
I./JG26,
LuftFlotte's 1, 4 and 6. with most coverage to USSR
10./jg54, lost II.&III./JG3, lost 15.Staffel JG/52, lost I.JG26, lost IV. and 15. Staffel/JG51
The combined day fighter strength in May 1942 for all units opposed to VVS were LF1 (71), LF4 (132), LF5 (97) and Kdo Ost(179)
one year later, after transfers LF1 (77), LF4 (105), LF5 (115), LF6 (10
In May 1944 the East had, after transfers again had LF1 (8
, LF4 (139), LF5 (67).
The drop in Serviceable day fighters in the East was 405 to 290 and parts of LF4 were deployed in Austria to resiste both 8th and 15th attacks to SE Germany and Czechoslovakia, and parts of JG5 were deployed to resist 8th AF attcks in Norway, Denmark and northern bomber routes, so the actual strength against the VVS was less than 290 day fighters.
The gain for LF3 and LF Reich in that same period was
LF3 (215) and LF Reich (19
in May 1943 to May 1944 was LF3 (115) and LFR (439) = and increase from 413 to 554 Day fighters.
This comparison between East and West is strictly to compare the shift in strength from Russia to try to stop the Allied strikes from England..
Elements of JG4, JG5, 53, 77 and KdoSud Ost were arrayed to resist RAF and USAAF strikes in Balkans and Southern Germany -
So of the serviceable day fighter strength of 1,063 s/e fighters a mximum of 28% was devoted to trying to stop VVS day attacks, the rest devoted to Allied day attacks.
The largest percentage of dedicated forces was t/e fighters both night and day - about 90% dedicated to fighting in the West.
All this from Dr Price's Luftwaffe Data book.
So, conclusions? Nowhere near 25% of LW losses occurred on Ost front and that would be generous.
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