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NOTE TO TABLE 22

This table is inserted largely for historical record, and its major features have been touched on in previous discussions. The rather violent fluctuations in monthly volume of air combat activity may be noted, as well as fluctuations in the loss ratios. To some extent the latter are chance fluctuations, but largely they represent actual variations in the intensity and quality of enemy aerial resistance encountered, and in the predominant types of enemy planes engaged.

TABLE 22. AERIAL COMBAT DATA, MONTHLY
A. ALL CARRIER-BASED AIRCRAFT
MONTH	SORTIES ENGAGING ENEMY AIRCRAFT	ENEMY AIRCRAFT ENGAGED		ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED IN COMBAT		OWN AIRCRAFT CASUALTIES TO ENEMY A/C		ENEMY A/C DESTROYED PER OWN LOSS	PERCENT OF OWN A/C ENGAGING
MONTH	SORTIES ENGAGING ENEMY AIRCRAFT	Bombers	Fighters	Bombers	Fighters	Lost	Damaged	ENEMY A/C DESTROYED PER OWN LOSS	Lost	Damaged
Dec 1941	*	*	*	*	*	1	0	*	*	*
Feb 1942	52	37	15	23	10	6	9	5.5	11.5	17.3
Mar 1942	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	#	0.0	0.0
May 1942	133	37	141	24	42	21	21	3.1	15.8	15.8
Jun 1942	138	68	226	33	36	41	4	1.7	29.7	2.9
Aug 1942	142	207	119	65	23	23	13	3.8	16.2	9.2
Oct 1942	116	90	138	48	42	20	12	4.5	17.2	10.3
Nov 1942	57	15	74	9	28	2	2	18.5	3.5	3.5
Jan 1943	15	23	0	11	0	0	1	#	0.0	6.7
Feb 1943	20	5	0	4	0	1	0	4.0	5.0	0.0
Mar 1943	*	*	*	*	*	1	0	*	*	*
Jul 1943	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	#	0.0	0.0
Aug 1943	*	*	*	*	*	2	0	*	*	*
Sep 1943	15	5	0	5	0	0	1	#	0.0	6.7
Oct 1943	86	17	82	9	34	1	9	43.0	1.2	10.5
Nov 1943	362	130	331	92	99	26	74	7.3	7.2	20.4
Dec 1943	74	19	92	10	36	3	10	15.3	4.1	13.5
Jan 1944	121	11	119	10	42	5	17	10.4	4.1	14.0
Feb 1944	222	42	223	31	131	6	19	27.0	2.7	8.6
Mar 1944	142	24	179	21	90	3	13	37.0	2.1	9.2
Apr 1944	203	38	133	33	61	5	11	18.8	2.5	5.4
May 1944	10	2	1	2	1	0	0	#	0.0	0.0
Jun 1944	992	470	1,131	254	543	48	73	16.6	4.8	7.4
Jul 1944	131	12	167	10	103	14	11	8.1	10.7	8.4
Aug 1944	47	15	14	10	14	3	0	8.0	6.4	0.0
Sep 1944	578	88	669	46	327	13	37	28.7	2.2	6.4
Oct 1944	1,572	617	1,645	409	780	74	105	16.1	4.7	6.7
Nov 1944	483	61	483	49	223	11	18	24.7	2.3	3.7
Dec 1944	154	31	114	25	86	2	3	55.5	1.3	1.9
Jan 1945	486	85	287	74	169	10	21	24.3	2.1	4.3
Feb 1945	950	73	1,184	50	382	40	64	10.8	4.2	6.7
Mar 1945	630	147	574	106	243	32	25	10.9	5.1	4.0
Apr 1945	1,185	474	958	431	618	18	30	58.3	1.5	2.5
May 1945	363	77	415	59	219	5	7	55.6	1.4	1.9
Jun 1945	113	2	114	1	20	4	0	5.3	3.5	0.0
Jul 1945	109	17	86	15	47	7	7	8.9	6.4	6.4
Aug 1945	115	33	78	27	38	4	5	16.3	3.5	4.3
1941-42 TOTAL	641	455	713	203	181	114	61	3.4	17.8	9.5
1943 TOTAL	573	200	505	131	169	34	95	8.8	5.9	16.6
1944 TOTAL	4,655	1,411	4,878	900	2,401	184	307	17.9	4.0	6.6
1945 TOTAL	3,951	908	3,696	763	1,736	120	159	20.8	3.0	4.0
GRAND TOTAL	9,820	2,974	9,792	1,997	4,487	452	622	14.3	4.6	6.3
# – No losses. * – No engagements reported; the losses reported may have been sustained in unreported actions during this month, or in previous months' actions, or the cause of loss may have been incorrectly ascribed to aerial combat. The latter factor may apply also to other months in 1942 and 1943. NOTE: No engagements were reported in months not listed above.

TABLE 22. AERIAL COMBAT DATA, MONTHLY
B. ALL LAND-BASEL AIRCRAFT
MONTH	SORTIES ENGAGING ENEMY AIRCRAFT	ENEMY AIRCRAFT ENGAGED		ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED IN COMBAT		OWN AIRCRAFT CASUALTIES TO ENEMY A/C		ENEMY A/C DESTROYED PER OWN LOSS	PERCENT OF OWN A/C ENGAGING
MONTH	SORTIES ENGAGING ENEMY AIRCRAFT	Bombers	Fighters	Bombers	Fighters	Lost	Damaged	ENEMY A/C DESTROYED PER OWN LOSS	Lost	Damaged
Dec 1941	34	90	22	10	2	8	5	1.5	23.5	14.7
Jan 1942	9	12	1	0	1	2	3	0.5	22.2	33.3
Feb 1942	6	8	5	0	1	6	0	0.2	100.0	0.0
Mar 1942	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	#	0.0	100.0
May 1942	3	3	0	0	0	0	3	#	0.0	100.0
Jun 1942	74	43	109	8	13	39	14	0.5	52.7	18.9
Jul 1942	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	#	0.0	0.0
Aug 1942	47	36	77	21	35	8	4	7.0	17.0	8.5
Sep 1942	191	274	201	74	37	18	28	6.2	9.4	14.7
Oct 1942	204	117	240	57	120	43	10	4.1	21.1	4.9
Nov 1942	92	59	135	22	55	21	7	3.7	22.8	7.6
Dec 1942	27	0	43	0	19	7	2	2.7	25.9	7.4
Jan 1943	54	8	109	4	50	11	1	4.9	20.4	1.9
Feb 1943	26	7	47	5	16	22	8	1.0	84.6	30.8
Mar 1943	4	1	17	0	1	2	2	0.5	50.0	50.0
Apr 1943	53	30	76	13	33	20	11	2.3	37.7	20.8
May 1943	21	5	25	0	15	5	5	3.0	23.8	23.8
Jun 1943	116	66	184	44	84	29	18	4.4	25.0	15.5
Jul 1943	260	95	577	36	150	38	34	4.9	14.6	13.1
Aug 1943	167	44	368	16	93	13	25	8.4	7.8	15.0
Sep 1943	224	61	402	15	93	26	26	4.2	11.6	11.6
Oct 1943	106	18	209	4	65	7	16	9.9	6.6	15.1
Nov 1943	143	82	195	38	60	11	20	8.9	7.7	14.0
Dec 1943	189	34	418	3	103	16	35	6.6	8.5	18.5
Jan 1944	714	7	1,308	6	364	40	104	9.3	5.6	14.6
Feb 1944	445	15	651	11	138	18	42	8.3	4.0	9.4
Mar 1944	31	11	39	5	15	2	4	10.0	6.5	12.9
Apr 1944	32	22	30	11	3	1	0	14.0	3.1	0.0
May 1944	36	11	87	9	9	1	5	18.0	2.8	13.9
Jun 1944	40	22	49	12	9	0	7	#	0.0	17.5
Jul 1944	17	4	15	2	2	1	3	4.0	5.9	17.6
Aug 1944	30	4	42	1	3	1	7	4.0	3.3	23.3
Sep 1944	23	9	24	6	3	2	2	4.5	8.7	8.7
Oct 1944	25	10	24	9	10	3	2	6.3	12.0	8.0
Nov 1944	37	2	69	2	8	3	7	3.3	8.1	18.9
Dec 1944	147	29	199	19	71	5	20	18.0	3.4	13.6
Jan 1945	23	7	14	4	11	0	3	#	0.0	13.0
Feb 1945	52	27	59	13	14	2	4	13.5	3.8	7.7
Mar 1945	34	16	49	14	12	1	1	26.0	2.9	2.9
Apr 1945	175	129	107	107	49	5	5	31.2	2.9	2.9
May 1945	279	130	259	99	162	6	24	43.5	2.2	8.6
Jun 1945	216	50	251	43	95	8	17	17.3	3.7	7.9
Jul 1945	61	14	72	11	17	3	6	9.3	4.9	9.8
Aug 1945	19	4	36	4	7	1	4	11.0	5.3	21.1
1941-42 TOTAL	689	643	835	193	283	152	77	3.1	22.1	11.2
1943 TOTAL	1,363	451	2,627	178	763	200	201	4.7	14.7	14.7
1944 TOTAL	1,577	146	2,537	93	635	77	203	9.5	4.9	12.9
1945 TOTAL	859	377	847	295	367	26	64	25.5	3.0	7.5
GRAND TOTAL	4,488	1,617	6,846	759	2,048	455	545	6.2	10.1	12.1
# – No losses. NOTE: Delayed, reporting of losses, and failure to report exact date of loss, may have unduly inflated apparent loss rates for some months of light combat activity succeeding months of heavy been incorrectly ascribed to enemy aircraft by the reporting unit.

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TABLE 22. AERIAL COMBAT DATA, MONTHLY

TABLE 22. AERIAL COMBAT DATA, MONTHLY