太平洋戦線でアメリカは27,000機もの航空機を失ったって知ってるか? 欧州戦では未生還機に廃棄処分機(lost or damaged beyond repair) を加えても18,000機なのに対し。
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.
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.
During the course of the war, the Twentieth Air Force flew 31,387 bomber sorties; 3,058 of which were flown by the XX Bomber Command, 28,329 by the XXI. The war had taken 414 B-29s, 80 from the XX Bomber Command and 334 from the XXI. Losses on combat missions averaged 1.3 percent of sorties airborne, with a total of 147 bombers lost. Of these combat losses: 50 percent were caused by enemy fighters. 36 percent were caused by enemy antiaircraft. 13 percent were caused by a combination of both. 1 percent were self-inflicted by accident. http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/Hansell/Hansell-6.html