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NOTES TO TABLE 37
This table illustrates the offensive uses made of the various models of aircraft. Attention is invited to:
(a) The extensive use of the carrier F6F and F4U against airfields, and of the F6F against merchant shipping. The FM, based on CVEs, was used primarily against military targets in air-ground support operations.
(b) The heavy use of carrier VSB (25% of total attack sorties) against shipping, and especially against heavy warships. The use of carrier VTB against shipping, and against airfields, is reduced by inclusion in the figures of CVE VTB which engaged primarily in air-ground support operations.
(c) The predominant use of land-based VF and VSB against military targets. The land-based VTB data indicate a heavy use against airfields largely because their offensive use was principally in the Solomons campaign of 1943 and early 1944, when airfields were the principal target. Note also the extensive use of land-based VF against small vessels, largely barges in the Solomons and Marshalls areas.
(d) The heavy use of the PBJ and PV against land targets, contrasted with the primary employment of other VPB against merchant shipping.
See also Table 38, for more detailed data for 1944 only.
TABLE 37. SORTIES ATTACKING TARGETS, BY PLANE MODEL AND TYPE OF
TARGET ATTACKED, FOR ENTIRE WAR
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CARRIER-BASED |
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BASE, PLANE MODEL |
AIRFIELDS |
OTHER MILITARY TARGETS |
LAND TRANSP |
HARBOR AREAS |
OTHER & UNKNOWN LAND |
WARSHIPS |
MERCHANTMEN |
SHIPS, TYPE UNKNOWN(*) |
TOTAL |
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Over 500 Tons |
Under 500 Tons |
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Armored |
Unarmored |
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F6F |
22,716 |
19,111 |
1,258 |
958 |
1,594 |
1,013 |
1,779 |
5,473 |
2,965 |
185 |
57,052 |
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F4U, FG |
4,115 |
1,869 |
171 |
275 |
489 |
263 |
140 |
472 |
195 |
4 |
7,993 |
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FM |
2,334 |
7,281 |
559 |
180 |
536 |
203 |
122 |
170 |
523 |
5 |
11,913 |
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F4F |
129 |
211 |
0 |
24 |
97 |
20 |
32 |
26 |
12 |
12 |
563 |
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SB2C, SBW |
3,982 |
9,008 |
267 |
284 |
769 |
924 |
638 |
2,729 |
490 |
42 |
19,133 |
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SBD |
1,765 |
2,338 |
20 |
37 |
86 |
639 |
157 |
726 |
77 |
57 |
5,902 |
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TBF, TBM |
9,750 |
16,842 |
859 |
725 |
1,272 |
1,511 |
638 |
2,626 |
773 |
183 |
35,179 |
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TBD |
27 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
107 |
0 |
35 |
0 |
0 |
169 |
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LAND-BASED |
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BASE, PLANE MODEL |
AIRFIELDS |
OTHER MILITARY TARGETS |
LAND TRANSP |
HARBOR AREAS |
OTHER & UNKNOWN LAND |
WARSHIPS |
MERCHANTMEN |
SHIPS, TYPE UNKNOWN(*) |
TOTAL |
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Armored |
Unarmored |
Over 500 Tons |
Under 500 Tons |
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F4U, FG |
6,095 |
30,901 |
2,647 |
1,820 |
1,688 |
0 |
105 |
327 |
2,977 |
19 |
46,579 |
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F6F |
359 |
1,482 |
22 |
94 |
690 |
0 |
0 |
32 |
245 |
4 |
2,928 |
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F4F, FM |
39 |
76 |
0 |
50 |
3 |
12 |
87 |
17 |
35 |
0 |
319 |
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u/i VF |
39 |
12 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
51 |
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SBD |
5,368 |
34,075 |
1,365 |
484 |
689 |
155 |
471 |
483 |
759 |
41 |
43,890 |
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SB2C, SBW |
194 |
1,758 |
41 |
85 |
21 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
96 |
0 |
2,195 |
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SB2U |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
17 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
17 |
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TBF, TBM |
2,695 |
5,570 |
216 |
385 |
129 |
88 |
140 |
290 |
78 |
250 |
9,841 |
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PBJ |
2,309 |
4,875 |
257 |
209 |
269 |
0 |
18 |
97 |
70 |
25 |
8,129 |
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PV |
621 |
1,303 |
17 |
56 |
63 |
0 |
28 |
43 |
249 |
52 |
2,432 |
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PB4Y |
411 |
482 |
181 |
102 |
104 |
5 |
132 |
492 |
1,055 |
91 |
3,055 |
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PBY |
131 |
484 |
7 |
46 |
22 |
16 |
60 |
214 |
202 |
89 |
1,271 |
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PBM |
15 |
76 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
34 |
115 |
169 |
5 |
424 |
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PB2Y |
50 |
15 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
18 |
14 |
13 |
112 |
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u/i VPB |
8 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
8 |
40 |
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PERCENTAGES, BY PLANE TYPE: |
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BASE, PLANE MODEL |
AIRFIELDS |
OTHER MILITARY TARGETS |
LAND TRANSP |
HARBOR AREAS |
OTHER & UNKNOWN LAND |
WARSHIPS |
MERCHANTMEN |
SHIPS, TYPE UNKNOWN(*) |
TOTAL |
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Armored |
Unarmored |
Over 500 Tons |
Under 500 Tons |
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Carrier VF |
37.8 |
36.7 |
2.6 |
1.8 |
3.5 |
1.9 |
2.7 |
7.9 |
4.8 |
0.3 |
100.0 |
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Carrier VSB |
22.9 |
45.3 |
1.1 |
1.3 |
3.4 |
6.3 |
3.2 |
13.8 |
2.3 |
0.4 |
100.0 |
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Carrier VTB |
27.6 |
47.7 |
2.4 |
2.1 |
3.6 |
4.6 |
1.8 |
7.5 |
2.2 |
0.5 |
100.0 |
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Land-Based VF |
13.1 |
65.1 |
5.4 |
3.9 |
4.8 |
0.0 |
0.4 |
0.8 |
6.5 |
0.0 |
100.0 |
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Land-Based VSB |
12.1 |
77.7 |
3.0 |
1.2 |
1.5 |
0.4 |
1.0 |
1.1 |
1.9 |
0.1 |
100.0 |
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Land-Based VTB |
27.4 |
56.6 |
2.2 |
3.9 |
1.3 |
0.9 |
1.4 |
3.0 |
0.8 |
2.5 |
100.0 |
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VPB, 2/E Land |
27.8 |
58.5 |
2.6 |
2.5 |
3.2 |
0.0 |
0.4 |
1.3 |
3.0 |
0.7 |
100.0 |
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VPB, 2/E Sea |
8.9 |
32.9 |
0.5 |
2.7 |
1.8 |
1.3 |
5.4 |
19.1 |
21.5 |
5.9 |
100.0 |
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VPB, 4/E |
14.5 |
15.7 |
5.7 |
3.2 |
3.3 |
0.2 |
4.2 |
16.1 |
33.8 |
3.3 |
100.0 |
