(127 days/nights)
Number of nights with operations: 100
Number of days with operations: 81
Number of night sorties: 44,289, from which 611 aircraft (1.4 percent) were lost
Number of day sorties: 18,545, from which 100 aircraft (0.5 percent) were lost
Total sorties: 62,824, from which 711 aircraft (1.1 percent) were lost
Approximate bomb tonnage in period: 181,740 tons
Average per 24-hour period: 494.6 sorties, 5.6 aircraft lost, 1,431.0 tons of bombs dropped
Vol. III, pp. 81-94.
Acknowledgement is made to MM. Robert Colle, Curator of the Royan Museum, and Pierre Lis, Mayor of Royan in 1982, for their research.
Charles de Gaulle, Mmoires de Guerre, Plon Presse, 1959, Vol. III, p. 159.
Vol. IV, pp. 112-13.
Quoted from page 9 of a diary provided by the Pforzheim Stadtarchiv.
Official History, Vol. III, p. 264.
OPERATIONAL STATISTICS
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(2,074 days/nights)
(These statistics have been compiled by first totalling the operational statistics printed at the end of each period of the diaries and then adding 2,654 sorties and 73 aircraft lost on Resistance Operations between
