BC Operational Stats

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Bomber Command

Monthly Operational Statistics

Updated: January 2008

Sources:

The Bomber Command War Diaries, by M. Middlebrook & C. Everitt

Lancaster To Berlin, by Walter Thompson

Sorties Dispatched

1939
1940

1941

1942

1943
1944

1945

1939	Sorties Dispatched By Month
	Night				Day
	Total Sorties	Missing	Crashed	Percent	Total Sorties	Missing	Crashed	Percent
September	83	2	3	6.0	40	12	0	30.0
October	32	2	2	12.5	0	0	0	0
November	15	0	1	7.0	4	0	0	0
December	40	0	0	0	119	17	2	16.0

1940	Sorties Dispatched By Month
	Night				Day
	Total Sorties	Missing	Crashed	Percent	Total Sorties	Missing	Crashed	Percent
January	38	0	0	0	6	0	0	0
February	54	1	0	5.8	4	0	2	0
March	239	5	1	4.6	53	1	6	1.9
April	489	18	8	5.3	167	15	0	9.0
May	1617	21	3	1.5	802	49	3	6.5
June	2484	26	7	1.3	812	31	1	3.9
July	1722	40	3	2.5	616	32	4	5.8
August	2188	52	11	2.9	417	18	0	4.3
September	3141	65	21	2.7	98	1	0	1.0
October	2242	27	32	2.6	172	1	0	0.6
November	1894	50	34	4.4	113	2	0	1.8
December	1385	37	25	4.2	56	2	0	3.6

1941	Sorties Dispatched By Month
	Night				Day
	Total Sorties	Missing	Crashed	Percent	Total Sorties	Missing	Crashed	Percent
January	1030	12	12	2.3	96	3	1	4.2
February	1617	16	32	3.0	124	2	2	3.2
March	1728	35	36	4.1	162	4	0	2.5
April	2249	56	12	3.0	676	23	7	4.4
May	2146	39	14	2.2	273	20	3	8.4
June	3228	76	15	2.8	531	22	3	4.7
July	3243	91	28	3.7	582	55	3	11.8
August	3354	121	45	5.0	468	35	5	8.5
September	2621	76	61	5.3	263	14	1	5.7
October	2501	68	40	4.3	138	17	1	13.0
November	1713	83	21	6.0	43	0	0	0
December	1411	36	16	3.1	151	7	0	4.6

1942	Sorties Dispatched By Month
	Night				Day
	Total Sorties	Missing	Crashed	Percent	Total Sorties	Missing	Crashed	Percent
January	2216	56	32	4.0	24	0	0	0
February	1162	18	14	2.7	252	15	1	6.3
March	2224	78	21	4.4	131	2	0	1.5
April	3752	130	29	4.2	246	13	2	6.1
May	2702	114	21	5.0	105	1	0	0.9
June	4801	199	39	5.0	196	2	1	1.5
July	3914	171	22	4.9	313	19	0	6.1
August	2454	142	16	6.4	186	10	5	8.1
September	3489	169	39	6.0	127	6	0	4.7
October	2193	89	27	5.8	106	14	0	3.4
November	2067	53	0	3.7	127	11	0	8.6
December	1758	72	22	5.3	200	16	2	9.0

1943	Sorties Dispatched By Month
	Night				Day
	Total Sorties	Missing	Crashed	Percent	Total Sorties	Missing	Crashed	Percent
January	2556	86	18	4.1	406	15	3	4.4
February	5030	101	22	2.4	426	6	3	2.1
March	5174	161	25	3.6	284	7	1	2.8
April	5571	253	24	4.9	361	12	1	4.1
May	5130	234	27	5.1	360	19	4	6.4
June	5816	265	15	15	0	0	0	0
July	6170	188	31	3.5	0	0	0	0
August	7807	275	33	3.0	0	0	0	0
September	5513	191	34	3.0	0	0	0	0
October	4638	159	21	3.9	0	0	0	0
November	5208	152	48	4.0	0	0	0	0
December	4123	170	47	5.3	0	0	0	0

1944	Sorties Dispatched By Month
	Night				Day
	Total Sorties	Missing	Crashed	Percent	Total Sorties	Missing	Crashed	Percent
January	6278	314	38	5.6	0	0	0	0
February	4263	199	21	5.2	45	0	0	0
March	9031	283	39	3.6	18	0	0	0
April	9783	214	25	2.4	10	0	0	0
May	11353	274	29	2.7	16	0	0	0
June	13592	293	30	2.5	2371	12	0	0.5
July	11500	229	29	2.2	6293	12	4	0.3
August	10013	186	22	2.1	10271	36	1	0.3
September	6428	96	15	1.8	9643	41	0	0.4
October	10193	75	26	1.0	6713	52	0	0.8
November	9589	98	43	1.4	5005	41	0	0.8
December	11239	88	43	1.2	3656	31	0	0.8

1945	Sorties Dispatched By Month
	Night				Day
	Total Sorties	Missing	Crashed	Percent	Total Sorties	Missing	Crashed	Percent
January	9603	121	57	1.9	1304	12	0	0.6
February	13715	164	60	1.6	3685	9	0	0.2
March	11585	168	76	2.1	9606	47	10	0.6
April	8822	51	25	0.9	5001	22	6	0.5
May	360	3	0	0.9	1863	0	1	0.6