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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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RE: Allied Replacement Aircraft Replacement Rate - 
. I can pull the data that the Allies had over 414k total sorties with 693 ops losses but I have no idea how much of that was due to SBDs. I also have to say that I am not yet convinced that this "sorties total" includes search and ASW sorties; I am certain it does not include training sorties yet in real life the bulk of the ops losses were in training. Also note that I cannot say that all of the SBD losses I suffered were operating from carriers at the time. While I flew no combat sorties from land bases with SBDs, I did use a few for ASW patrol at PH and there were some in the US that were training and may have suffered ops losses there. 
. What data I have seen indicates that over 70% of the USN a/c lost between 1941 and 1945 were not combat related and that carrier operations provide the most dangerous flying in the world. Now I have no doubt that you (or I) will find sources that X a/c were lost due to "operational factors" but the definitions in such sources are usually quite narrow and constrained by the purpose of the work. My figure of "over 70%" was determined by taking what was left after "combat losses". Depending upon the source, these "combat losses" as a fraction of total losses could be around 30% although I have seen numbers that vary all the way from around 15% (known to be destroyed in the air) to 20% ("killed or missing") to 45% (killed, missing or written off after a mission). While there is a lot of variation in both the numbers and what is included in the numbers, I have never seen a source that claimed that "combat losses" were more than half of the total a/c destroyed (crashed, missing, written off, and or canabalized). 
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