You might add that the Mosquito is believed to have shot down approximately 600 german SE day fighters, whilst suffering neglible losses themselves.
Sorry but is that claim even remotely serious..?
In any case, the figures Glider posted (who had yet failed to apologize for his past behavaviour and until he will do so, will be not adressed directly) are
strawman arguments, as my original statement was:
"the Mosquito had the highest loss rate of all RAF bombers (about double that of the conventional bombers)
when it was first introduced"
That means,
in 1942 to my best knowledge, when it had about 8% loss rate per sortie compared to conventional RAF escorted bombers in comparable missions with 4% loss rate or thereabouts
I fail to see the reasoning why then Glider posts figures
for 1944, when the circumstances were entirely different - the Germans were busy intercepting US heavies and escorts over Germany and so on, circumstances that must be so painfully obvious to everyone here.
The daylight loss rate for 1944 No 2 Group Mosquitos is only worth of consideration in context - under the
same time period, but not neccessarily the
same circumstances, was it more survivable than comparable light bomber types? The answer, I am afraid, is not.
For example, the Army Air Forces Statistical Digest of World War II provides a vast array of statistics to play with. In the European Theatre of Operations for example, during 210,544,
US heavy bombers flew 210,544 sorties, and lost 3,497 aircraft in total (loss rate of 1,6%), of which 1,516 they attributed to enemy fighter defenses (0,7%). And they were, by far, the most targeted by German fighter defences.
US medium and light bombers flew 79,461 sorties, and lost 487 aircraft in total (loss rate of only 0,62%), but only 93 were attributed to enemy fighters (0.11% ), with the vast majority felling to Flak.
Now, in 1944,
No 2 Group's Mosquitoes operated (as per Glider's figures) with 1.6% loss rate per sortie, US B-17s/B-24s over West/Norther Europe operated at the same loss rate at 1.6%, and US B-25s/B-26s at much lower loss rate at 0.62%.
To put it into further context, there are also some figures for the German Air Force on the Eastern front at
http://www.lesbutler.ip3.co.uk/jg26/thtrlosses.htm
According to these, German combat aircraft operated, in 1944, at a loss rate of 0.703 % per sortie.
There you go, statistics. Either the B-25 and B-26 etc. were more survivable than B-17s, B-24s (which is quite unlikely, having about the same speed, and less armament, airframe etc.), and also vastly better in this respect than Mosquitoes, and about as good as any German combat type on the Eastern Front, ie. that the operational loss rates being defined by technical aspects such as speed etc., or we can conclude that operational circumstances are the definitive factor.
Simply the Germans concentrated US/Brit heavies, smartly, as they did by FAR the most damage to them, and when possible, ignored US/Brit light bombers and fighter bombers, which could operate at inpunity - at the expense of the heavy bomber streams. Its not particularly hard to evade enemy interception, when nobody is trying to intercept you in the first place.. something similiar was happening on the Eastern Front, German (and Soviet) aircraft could operate with relative inpunity, save for the AAA: the operational area was vast, fighters were thinly spread and coordination of the fighter defenses was relatively primitive compared to Western Europe and Germany, a much smaller area, with much higher fighter concentrations.
It can be stated, however, given these loss rate figures, that there appears to be no visible advantage at all in favour of the light, fast bomber (ie. Mosquito) vs a conventional light/medium bomber.
In fact, it appears that the same thing was happening as in 1942, ie. that Mosquito units were operating with 2 to 3 times the loss rate than conventional lights and mediums (1.62 % vs. 0.62%), in the same period (1944).
The bombload stated i Kurfursts post is average, unless you factor in the other aspect of tat capacity, namely that the Mosquito could carry that weight of bombs all the way to Berlin, something worth noting and quite rare.
Do you have range/payload tables for the Mosquito perhaps, that we can other comparable twin engined designs? Because until some presents some hard and digestable figures, we are left with the somewhat dubious notion that this was 'quite rare'.