MILITARY HOSTILE NON-HOSTILE ACTION DEATHS WOUNDED DEATHS World War II (1941-45) Total 293,1216 670,846 115,185 European Theater 185,179 498,948 66,805 Pacific Theater 107,903 171,898 48,380 http://www.vfw.org/PR/Media%20Room/AmericasWarDead1775_2009.pdf
日本に対する活動に関する現在の状況が、ノルマンディーに対して提案された作戦に 関連してあった状況とちょうど同一であると、GENERAL MARSHALLは指摘しました。 それから自分の見解の表すものとして、参謀共同で大統領に発表する用意をした メモのダイジェストを、以下のように読み上げました。 GENERAL MARSHALL pointed out that the present situation with respect to operations against Japan was practically identical with the situation which had existed in connection with the operations proposed against Normandy. He then read, as an expression of his views, the following digest of a memorandum prepared by the joint Chiefs of Staff for presentation to the President (J.C.S. 1388): http://www.endusmilitarism.org/WH_meeting_of_061845.html
議事録には次のようなイーカーの言葉が引用されている。 「日本にたいし航空兵力のみの使用を主張する者はきわめて重大な事実を見過ごしています。それはつまり、 航空機のみが敵と対決するときは、航空兵の死傷者数は決して低下しないという事実です。現在の航空兵の 死傷者数は一度の任務につきおよそ二パーセントであり、一月当たりでは約三〇パーセントです」 イーカーは続けた。「時期を逸すれば、敵が有利になるだけです」 「日本殲滅 日本本土侵攻作戦の全貌」(T・アレン&N・ボーマー著) "GENERAL EAKER said that he agreed completely with the statements made by General Marshall in his digest of the memorandum prepared for the President. He had just received a cable in which General Arnold also <page 559> expressed complete agreement. He stated that any blockade of Honshu was completely dependent upon airdromes on Kyushu; that the air plan contemplated employment of 40 groups of heavy bombers against Japan and that these could not be deployed without the use of airfields on Kyushu. He said that those who advocated the use against Japan of air power alone overlooked the very impressive fact that air casualties are always much heavier when the air faces the enemy alone and that these casualties never fail to drop as soon as the ground forces come in. Present air casualties are averaging 2 percent per mission, about 30 percent per month. He wished to point out and to emphasize that delay favored only the enemy and he urged that there be no delay. http://www.endusmilitarism.org/casualty_projections_Giangreco.html
Aggregate United States plane losses during the course of the Pacific war, not including training losses in the United States, were approximately 27,000 planes. Of these losses 8,700 were on combat missions; the remainder were training, ferrying and other noncombat losses. Of the combat losses over 60 percent were to antiaircraft fire. http://www.anesi.com/ussbs01.htm
In the attack by Allied air power, almost 2,700,000 tons of bombs were dropped, more than 1,440,000 bomber sorties and 2,680,000 fighter sorties were flown. The number of combat planes reached a peak of some 28,000 and at the maximum 1,300,000 men were in combat commands. The number of men lost in air action was 79,265 Americans and 79,281 British. [Note: All RAF statistics are preliminary or tentative.] More than 18,000 American and 22,000 British planes were lost or damaged beyond repair. http://www.anesi.com/ussbs02.htm
During the war, FEAF units flew 720,980 sorties and delivered 476,000 tons of ordnance. For these numbers FEAF estimated it had killed nearly 150,000 North Korean and Chinese troops and claimed the destruction of more than 975 aircraft, 800 bridges, 1,100 tanks, 800 locomotives, 9,000 railroad cars, 70,000 motor vehicles, and 80,000 buildings. This damage was inflicted at the cost of 1,841 men killed, wounded and missing, and 750 aircraft destroyed by the enemy. http://www.state.nj.us/military//korea/factsheets/air_f_fs.html
USAAF bombers in the European War, 1942-45 Bomber Type Number of Sorties Bomb Tonnage US Aircraft Lost in combat Enemy Aircraft Claimed Destroyed in Air* B-17 291,508 640,036 4688 6659 B-24 226,775 452,508 3626 2617 B-26 129,943 169,382 911 402 B-25 63,177 84,980 380 193 A-20 39,492 31,856 265 11 A-26 11,567 18,054 67 7 Total 762,462 1,396,816 9937 9889
COMBINED SUMMARY OF 20TH AIR FORCE & 9TH GROUP OPERATIONS 20TH AIR FORCE 9TH BOMB GROUPC From June 5, 1944 on From February 9, 1945 on Missions 380 75 Sorties Combat 31,387 1843 Other 1,617 169 Total 33,004 2012 Bomb and mine tonnage 171,060 11,376 B-29 losses Combat losses 494 14 + 5 non-combat Training losses in U.S. 260 1 Air crew losses Killed 576 26 + 1 ground crewman Missing 2,406 96 (12 repatriated) Wounded or injured 433 30 http://www.9thbombgroup.org/9thHistoryBook.pdf