Geoffrey Sinclair
Senior Airman
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- Sep 30, 2021
This is from the Statistical Summary of 8th Air Force Operations, European Theater 17 Aug 1942 to 8 May 1945. Air Sea Rescue figures. To end February 1944 the figures include all USAAF personnel, after that just 8th AF. It is sourced from the RAF Air/Sea Rescue Monthly Summaries and as such probably underestimates the men involved but also probably does not count men rescued by the Germans. It will be counting airmen killed in combat or in the ditchings as not rescued.
The first set of columns is the grand totals, all types, fighters and bombers, then B-17, then B-24, then the fighters, no is number of men thought to be involved, either by baling out over the sea or being in aircraft that ditched.
Be in a fighter, then a B-17, and do it in the warmer months.
The first set of columns is the grand totals, all types, fighters and bombers, then B-17, then B-24, then the fighters, no is number of men thought to be involved, either by baling out over the sea or being in aircraft that ditched.
| Month | Totals | Totals | Totals | B-17 | B-17 | B-17 | B-24 | B-24 | B-24 |
| Month | no | saved | % | no | saved | % | no | saved | % |
Jan-43 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
Feb-43 | 63 | 1 | 1.6 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 1 | 2.3 |
Mar-43 | 40 | 9 | 22.5 | 31 | 9 | 29 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
Apr-43 | 44 | 2 | 4.5 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
May-43 | 202 | 20 | 9.9 | 197 | 20 | 10.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jun-43 | 196 | 70 | 35.7 | 191 | 67 | 35.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jul-43 | 210 | 141 | 67.1 | 196 | 139 | 70.9 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
Aug-43 | 111 | 63 | 56.8 | 91 | 57 | 62.6 | 20 | 6 | 30 |
Sep-43 | 243 | 165 | 67.9 | 211 | 152 | 72 | 28 | 12 | 42.9 |
Oct-43 | 193 | 31 | 16.1 | 141 | 31 | 22 | 50 | 0 | 0 |
Nov-43 | 190 | 38 | 20 | 130 | 38 | 29.2 | 51 | 0 | 0 |
Dec-43 | 445 | 82 | 18.4 | 390 | 71 | 18.2 | 50 | 10 | 20 |
Jan-44 | 231 | 29 | 12.6 | 182 | 28 | 15.4 | 43 | 0 | 0 |
Feb-44 | 237 | 59 | 24.9 | 179 | 51 | 28.5 | 53 | 8 | 15.1 |
Mar-44 | 243 | 96 | 39.5 | 140 | 69 | 49.3 | 81 | 19 | 23.5 |
Apr-44 | 276 | 109 | 39.5 | 180 | 61 | 33.9 | 70 | 35 | 50 |
May-44 | 272 | 160 | 58.8 | 187 | 127 | 67.9 | 70 | 24 | 34.3 |
Jun-44 | 242 | 109 | 45 | 142 | 72 | 50.7 | 91 | 31 | 34.1 |
Jul-44 | 236 | 135 | 57.2 | 126 | 90 | 71.4 | 97 | 36 | 37.1 |
Aug-44 | 227 | 110 | 48.5 | 131 | 54 | 41.2 | 75 | 41 | 54.7 |
Sep-44 | 102 | 63 | 61.8 | 54 | 36 | 66.7 | 39 | 20 | 51.3 |
Oct-44 | 56 | 15 | 26.8 | 45 | 10 | 22.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nov-44 | 102 | 11 | 10.8 | 81 | 9 | 11.1 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
Dec-44 | 84 | 15 | 17.9 | 50 | 9 | 18 | 28 | 4 | 14.3 |
Jan-45 | 97 | 31 | 32 | 40 | 16 | 40 | 49 | 14 | 28.6 |
Feb-45 | 99 | 37 | 37.4 | 51 | 23 | 45.1 | 36 | 11 | 30.6 |
Mar-45 | 40 | 6 | 15 | 31 | 2 | 6.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Apr-45 | 40 | 16 | 40 | 35 | 15 | 42.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
May-45 | 26 | 10 | 38.5 | 23 | 10 | 43.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1943 | 1978 | 622 | 31.4 | 1659 | 584 | 35.2 | 281 | 29 | 10.3 |
1944 | 2308 | 911 | 39.5 | 1497 | 616 | 41.1 | 659 | 218 | 33.1 |
1945 | 302 | 100 | 33.1 | 180 | 66 | 36.7 | 85 | 25 | 29.4 |
| Total | 4588 | 1633 | 35.6 | 3336 | 1266 | 37.9 | 1025 | 272 | 26.5 |
| P-47 | P-47 | P-47 | P-47 | P-51 | P-51 | P-51 | P-38 | P-38 | P-38 |
| Month | no | saved | % | no | saved | % | no | saved | % |
Jan-43 | |||||||||
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Mar-43 | |||||||||
Apr-43 | 4 | 2 | 50 | ||||||
May-43 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Jun-43 | 5 | 3 | 60 | ||||||
Jul-43 | 4 | 2 | 50 | ||||||
Aug-43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Sep-43 | 4 | 1 | 25 | ||||||
Oct-43 | 1 | 0 | 0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Nov-43 | 7 | 0 | 0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Dec-43 | 4 | 0 | 0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1 | 1 | 100 |
Jan-44 | 4 | 1 | 25 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Feb-44 | 4 | 0 | 0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Mar-44 | 8 | 4 | 50 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 75 |
Apr-44 | 4 | 3 | 75 | 17 | 8 | 47.1 | 5 | 2 | 40 |
May-44 | 4 | 4 | 100 | 8 | 4 | 50 | 3 | 1 | 33.3 |
Jun-44 | 3 | 3 | 100 | 5 | 2 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 100 |
Jul-44 | 3 | 2 | 66.7 | 7 | 5 | 71.4 | 3 | 2 | 66.7 |
Aug-44 | 1 | 1 | 100 | 19 | 13 | 68.4 | 1 | 1 | 100 |
Sep-44 | 1 | 1 | 100 | 7 | 5 | 71.4 | 1 | 1 | 100 |
Oct-44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 55.6 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Nov-44 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 25 | |||
Dec-44 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 40 | |||
Jan-45 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 14.3 | |||
Feb-45 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 12 | 3 | 25 | |||
Mar-45 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 9 | 4 | 44.4 | |||
Apr-45 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 5 | 1 | 20 | |||
May-45 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
1943 | 34 | 8 | 23.5 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 4 | 1 | 25 |
1944 | 34 | 19 | 55.9 | 95 | 47 | 49.5 | 23 | 11 | 47.8 |
1945 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 9 | 25 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Total | 69 | 27 | 39.1 | 131 | 56 | 42.7 | 27 | 12 | 44.4 |
