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Old February 16th, 2007, 08:14 AM
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Default Re: Western front-interesting bits of information

Luftwaffe losses for BoB altogether:

1733 aircraft of all sorts
which was 40% of the initial strength to start the campaign with (!)
Over 2600 Luftwaffe air men died.

RAF: 746 fighters lost, 520 pilots dead.

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After that you could say Luftwaffe was quite "finished" for a while.

As well it was interesting to notice in the document that 1/3 of all the new planes for RAF were from the Repair Units created by Mr Beaverbrook (!!!). These units built new planes from 100% damaged planes by collecting the still usable parts together.
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