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NOTES TO TABLE 10

High points in the 3 pages of this table are:

(a) The peak CV flight performance of April 1945, when 10 CVs averaged 1963 flights per ship for the month.

(b) The peak CV combat performance of September 1944, when 8 CVs, during 11 or 12 strike days per ship, flew an average of 1,534 flights and 1,097 action sorties per ship, and placed an average of 416 tons of bombs on target per CV, with a loss of only 16 planes per ship, a record not equalled subsequently, but approached in July 1944.

(c) The peak CV records for planes destroyed in combat per month: 518 by 8 CVs in June 1944, 751 by 9 CVs in October 1944, and 745 by 10 in April 1945.

(d) The peak CVL performance record of April 1945, when 6 CVLs averaged 853 flights, 380 action sorties, 753 rockets and 133 tons of bombs per CVL for the month, with 7 plane losses per CVL.

(e) Also during April, the 192 enemy planes destroyed in combat by aircraft of the 6 CVLs in action. Other peak CVL performances were in June 1944, when 8 CVLs destroyed 228 planes, and in October 1944, when 8 CVLs destroyed 237 of the enemy.

(f) CVE peak performance in April 1945, when 20 CVEs averaged 825 flights, 299 action sorties, 71 tons of bombs and 1,335 rockets per ship for the month, and shot down 112 enemy planes with only 2 air combat losses.

(g) The CVE air combat record of October 1944, when 201 enemy planes were shot down against 7 losses to enemy aircraft.

TABLE 10.SUMMARY OF CARRIER AIR OPERATIONS AND RESULTS, MONTHLY
A. LARGE CARRIERS (ESSEX Class and other CVs)
MONTH	CVs IN ACTION	FLIGHTS, SQUADRONS IN ACTION	ACTION SORTIES	OWN LOSSES					ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED IN COMBAT		TONS OF BOMBS ON TARGETS
				ON ACTION SORTIES			ON OTHER FL’TS	ON SHIP	ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED IN COMBAT
				To Enemy A/A	To Enemy A/C	Operational	ON OTHER FL’TS	ON SHIP	Bombers	Fighters
December 1941	#	*	#	0	1	0	0	0	#	#	#
February 1942	3	*	243	3	6	9	6	2	23	10	77
March 1942	3	*	142	2	0	0	4	0	1	0	51
April 1942	1	*	6	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	1
May 1942	2	*	332	1	21	11	3	37	24	42	139
June 1942	3	*	374	20	41	16	25	11	33	36	100
August 1942	3	*	681	6	23	6	14	1	65	23	181
October 1942	2	*	287	1	20	19	5	15	48	42	60
November 1942	2	*	494	9	2	2	5	0	3	25	74
January 1943	2	*	78	0	0	0	3	0	11	0	23
February 1943	1	*	20	0	1	0	1	0	4	0	0
July 1943	1	*	7	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
August 1943	2	*	270	3	0	1	6	0	0	0	109
September 1943	1	*	128	1	0	2	4	0	0	0	55
October 1943	4	*	763	7	0	12	9	0	3	26	298
November 1943	6	*	2,286	12	16	21	27	2	83	82	767
December 1943	5	*	471	5	3	1	17	2	6	35	183
January 1944	6	10,314	1,952	9	2	7	23	1	9	25	627
February 1944	6	5,938	3,115	16	6	13	20	3	18	125	1,008
March 1944	5	5,642	1,415	18	2	9	19	0	6	47	543
April 1944	6	6,044	3,747	21	4	21	15	3	21	31	1,377
May 1944	4	2,220	815	8	0	1	11	0	2	1	323
June 1944	7	9,474	5,492	75	31	98	23	11	165	353	1,730
July 1944	8	11,923	8,320	48	10	34	30	7	9	75	3,068
August 1944	6	4,322	1,036	21	3	3	15	2	5	11	355
September 1944	8	12,269	8,779	51	10	29	21	15	27	211	3,332
October 1944	9	12,290	7,276	113	57	72	64	56	196	555	2,590
November 1944	10	8,446	3,830	73	9	29	40	27	29	189	1,349
December 1944	7	7,416	1,551	23	0	18	38	8	13	46	263
January 1945	8	12,768	5,784	82	8	46	61	54	44	75	1,581
February 1945	11	12,046	3,865	35	35	34	88	48	45	332	915
March 1945	10	15,004	7,280	84	31	61	89	89	73	206	2,010
April 1945	10	19,630	7,795	71	11	42	77	89	290	455	2,816
May 1945	9	14,263	4,623	38	5	22	26	110	41	190	1,817
June 1945	8	7,783	1,335	10	4	15	22	9	0	17	452
July 1945	10	17,852	6,885	129	4	47	248	7	10	29	2,281
August 1945	11	13,506	3,440	33	4	18	83	1	21	23	1,200
1941-42 Total		*	2,559	42	114	63	67	66	197	178	683
1943 Total		*	4,023	28	20	37	68	4	107	143	1,435
1944 Total		96,298	47,328	476	134	334	319	133	500	1,669	16,565
1945 Total		112,852	41,007	482	102	285	694	407	524	1,327	13,072
GRAND TOTAL		209,150	94,917	1028	370	719	1148	610	1,328	3,317	31,755
# – No action reported; loss reported may be from unreported action, or may be an erroneous report. * – No data available.

TABLE 10.SUMMARY OF CARRIER AIR OPERATIONS AND RESULTS, MONTHLY
B. SMALL CARRIERS (CVLs, INDEPENDENCE Class)
MONTH	CVLs IN ACTION	FLIGHTS, SQUADRONS IN ACTION	ACTION SORTIES	OWN LOSSES					ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED IN COMBAT		TONS OF BOMBS ON TARGETS
				ON ACTION SORTIES			ON OTHER FL’TS	ON SHIP	ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED IN COMBAT
				To Enemy A/A	To Enemy A/C	Operational	ON OTHER FL’TS	ON SHIP	Bombers	Fighters
August 1943	1	*	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7
September 1943	2	*	68	4	0	0	9	0	5	0	28
October 1943	3	*	170	6	1	2	5	0	6	8	37
November 1943	5	*	484	3	10	4	19	4	8	17	160
December 1943	2	*	57	1	0	0	6	0	4	1	15
January 1944	6	4,588	723	3	3	4	15	1	1	17	187
February 1944	6	3,074	1,136	2	0	5	10	2	13	6	234
March 1944	6	2,248	345	4	1	2	7	1	15	42	64
April 1944	7	3,937	1,276	11	1	3	15	0	11	30	284
May 1944	3	1,276	87	0	0	1	5	0	0	0	20
June 1944	8	5,938	2,054	22	13	15	21	2	63	165	468
July 1944	7	4,519	1,559	8	4	8	13	3	1	28	537
August 1944	3	843	135	1	0	0	5	0	0	0	34
September 1944	8	5,273	1,729	13	3	10	11	2	19	115	382
October 1944	8	5,209	1,177	16	10	9	38	67	121	116	219
November 1944	6	2,641	567	9	2	7	10	2	20	34	168
December 1944	6	2,133	309	5	0	9	16	35	2	5	67
January 1945	5	2,680	921	16	0	7	21	14	7	26	261
February 1945	5	2,577	487	5	5	7	21	2	4	50	110
March 1945	6	4,132	2,015	25	1	18	19	17	29	35	599
April 1945	6	5,120	2,277	13	5	6	17	2	67	125	796
May 1945	6	3,707	1,349	8	0	5	13	8	10	29	500
June 1945	4	1,608	339	1	0	1	7	14	0	0	163
July 1945	6	4,481	1,447	20	3	7	47	2	2	18	656
August 1945	7	3,290	747	4	0	1	14	1	2	15	327
1943 Total		*	799	14	11	6	39	4	23	26	247
1944 Total		41,679	11,097	94	37	73	166	15	266	558	2,664
1945 Total		27,595	9,582	92	14	52	159	60	121	298	3,412
GRAND TOTAL		69,274	21,478	200	62	131	364	179	410	882	6,323
* – No data available.

TABLE 10.SUMMARY OF CARRIER AIR OPERATIONS AND RESULTS, MONTHLY
C. ESCORT CARRIERS (All Classes)
MONTH	CVEs IN ACTION	FLIGHTS, SQUADRONS IN ACTION	ACTION SORTIES	OWN LOSSES					ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED IN COMBAT		TONS OF BOMBS ON TARGETS
				ON ACTION SORTIES			ON OTHER FL’TS	ON SHIP	ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED IN COMBAT
				To Enemy A/A	To Enemy A/C	Operational	ON OTHER FL’TS	ON SHIP	Bombers	Fighters
November 1942	3	*	114	5	0	5	11	2	6	3	24
March 1943	#	*	#	0	1	0	0	0	#	#	#
May 1943	1	*	86	0	0	7	2	0	0	0	4
August 1943	#	*	#	2	2	0	1	0	#	#	#
November 1943	5	*	215	0	0	1	10	2	1	0	35
December 1943	1	*	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
January 1944	5	2,143	118	0	0	3	9	7	0	0	56
February 1944	8	4,099	521	1	0	2	14	0	0	0	222
March 1944	2	713	27	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1
April 1944	8	3,925	247	0	0	2	14	3	1	0	117
June 1944	11	5,520	1,220	18	4	14	35	9	26	25	237
July 1944	11	7,700	2,670	8	0	6	30	0	0	0	661
August 1944	4	1,640	545	14	0	0	2	1	5	3	84
September 1944	16	7,937	2,658	8	0	8	23	3	0	1	493
October 1944	18	7,412	2,495	38	7	46	48	37	92	109	530
December 1944	6	1,456	202	0	2	0	8	1	10	35	3
January 1945	18	10,299	1,932	10	2	13	94	22	23	68	466
February 1945	11	6,273	1,607	13	0	3	24	30	1	0	221
March 1945	15	9,176	2,837	12	0	11	41	2	4	2	553
April 1945	20	16,498	5,980	39	2	14	44	19	74	38	1,421
May 1945	20	12,227	3,081	16	0	9	42	36	8	0	1,208
June 1945	17	10,402	3,961	14	0	7	16	11	1	3	1,213
July 1945	4	1,756	136	1	0	0	4	0	3	0	32
August 1945	3	930	43	1	0	0	3	0	4	0	0
1942-43 Total		*	419	7	3	13	24	4	7	3	63
1944 Total		42,545	10,703	87	13	81	184	61	134	174	2,404
1945 Total		67,561	19,577	106	4	57	268	120	118	111	5,114
GRAND TOTAL		110,106	30,699	200	20	151	476	185	259	288	7,581
* – No data available. # – No action reported; losses reported may be from unreported action or may be erroneous reports.

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TABLE 10.SUMMARY OF CARRIER AIR OPERATIONS AND RESULTS, MONTHLY

TABLE 10.SUMMARY OF CARRIER AIR OPERATIONS AND RESULTS, MONTHLY

TABLE 10.SUMMARY OF CARRIER AIR OPERATIONS AND RESULTS, MONTHLY