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NOTES TO TABLE 8
The table indicates that some 65% of all action sorties were flown from CVs, 15% from CVLs, and 20% from CVEs. CVLs accounted for 20% of all enemy aircraft destroyed in combat, CVEs for less than 9%, while CVs were credited with over 70%.
Attention is invited to the low CVE plane losses to enemy aircraft in comparison with the numbers destroyed in combat: 20 losses as against 547 destroyed. The CVE F6F record of 99 enemy planes destroyed against 2 air combat losses, and the FM record of 422:13, far exceed the fast carrier records, and only 2 CVE bombers are credited as lost in air combat.
TABLE 8. SUMMARY OF CARRIER AIR
OPERATIONS AND RESULTS FOR ENTIRE WAR,
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TYPE CARRIER PLANE MODEL, SERVICE |
TOTAL ACTION SORTIES |
OWN LOSSES |
ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED IN COMBAT |
TONS OF BOMBS ON TARGETS |
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ON ACTION SORTIES |
ON OTHER FLIGHTS |
ON SHIP |
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To Enemy A/A |
To Enemy A/C |
Operational |
Bombers |
Fighters |
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CV Total |
94,917 |
1,028 |
370 |
719 |
1,148 |
610 |
1,328 |
3,317 |
31,755 |
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F6F |
41,715 |
366 |
185 |
212 |
509 |
233 |
933 |
2,641 |
3,466 |
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F4U (Navy) |
6,488 |
93 |
18 |
48 |
182 |
76 |
100 |
260 |
954 |
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F4U (Marine) |
2,650 |
40 |
16 |
21 |
42 |
37 |
53 |
159 |
277 |
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F4F |
968 |
11 |
44 |
22 |
42 |
20 |
185 |
109 |
2 |
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SB2C, SBW |
18,808 |
268 |
18 |
218 |
184 |
88 |
13 |
30 |
10,994 |
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SBD |
5,852 |
40 |
43 |
43 |
61 |
33 |
30 |
75 |
2,467 |
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TBF, TBM |
18,254 |
199 |
21 |
147 |
127 |
109 |
13 |
38 |
13,461 |
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TBD |
182 |
11 |
25 |
8 |
1 |
14 |
1 |
5 |
134 |
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CVL, Total |
21,478 |
200 |
62 |
131 |
364 |
179 |
410 |
882 |
6,323 |
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F6F |
15,099 |
128 |
58 |
91 |
279 |
122 |
406 |
876 |
1,492 |
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TBF, TBM |
6,379 |
72 |
4 |
40 |
85 |
57 |
4 |
6 |
4,831 |
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CVE, Total |
30,699 |
200 |
20 |
151 |
476 |
185 |
259 |
288 |
7,581 |
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FM |
12,925 |
62 |
13 |
75 |
283 |
71 |
194 |
228 |
148 |
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F6F (Navy) |
5,426 |
44 |
2 |
18 |
41 |
48 |
48 |
51 |
1,009 |
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F6F (Marine) |
146 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
25 |
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F4U (Marine) |
443 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
1 |
6 |
0 |
81 |
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F4F |
136 |
6 |
3 |
9 |
7 |
2 |
5 |
3 |
4 |
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SBD |
196 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
4 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
57 |
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TBF, TBM (Navy) |
10,931 |
77 |
2 |
44 |
127 |
61 |
5 |
6 |
5,953 |
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TBF, TBM (Marine) |
496 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
304 |
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GRAND TOTAL |
147,094 |
1,428 |
452 |
1,001 |
1,988 |
974 |
1,997 |
4,487 |
45,659 |
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NOTE: Unless otherwise noted, all planes are Navy. |
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