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Marty A -> RE: Allied Replacement Aircraft Replacement Rate (9/3/2009 1:24:55 AM)
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that 113 was only on combat missions according to page 1:
2. DATA NOT INCLUDED
Not all the story of Naval aviation, which could be told in statistical terms, is covered
in this report. The reasons for the omissions arise from the history and assigned functions of
the statistical unit preparing the data, and from the lack of any integrated statistical organization
covering all naval air operation. Postwar personnel shortages prevented this Branch
from making good these deficiencies.
Naval air anti-submarine warfare is the first exclusion. This results from the establishment,
many months prior to initiation of the general air combat statistical analysis program,
of a special ASW statistical analysis unit, (directly under CominCh, and later under Tenth Fleet).
To avoid duplication of a field well covered elsewhere, no records of air ASW activity were kept
by this Branch or its predecessors.
The second principal exclusion is complete, detailed data on flights not involving actual
action with the enemy (for search, reconnaissance, defensive, or other purposes), and losses
sustained on such flights. This arose from (a) the prior existence of another office (Flight
S t a t i s t i c , DCNO(Air)) primarily concerned with data on non-action flights, (b) the primary importance
of devoting the limited manpower and facilities available to the analysis of action
statistics not compiled elsewhere and (c) a lack of complete, uniform and detailed incoming
reports on non-action flights. This exclusion has been partly compensated by including in some
tables herein data on total flights reported monthly (for 1944-45 only) by squadrons which were
engaged .in a ctio—n during any month, and non-action losses by such squadrons during the entire war.
These items, however, do not give a full picture of the extent of naval air defensive or
reconnaissance patrol activity or losses sustained therein. It is doubtful whether data exist
which would permit a full and accurate statistical presentation of this activity.
A further exclusion is data on the operations of VO-VS aircraft. These operations were not
regularly reported by the units involved, in a manner permitting their tabulation by the IBM
card system.
The final major exclusion is data on losses of flying personnel. Losses as reported in
action reports are not final, because of subsequent rescues, or return of captured airmen. Data
on these is maintained by BuPers, but is not compiled and reported on a basis comparable with
the aircraft loss data herein.
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