AHC: Berlin by Christmas 1944

Something to note about the 1943 bombing campaign is that while American strategic bombers took terrible losses, so too did the German fighters who had to intercept them. According to Strategy For Defeat, German fighter losses jumped from hovering around 20% for the first six months of 1943 to 31.2% in July, 36% in August, and peaked at astonishing 41% in October before falling back down to 21% in November with the suspension of the major bombing campaign. ...

To help understand the context... Are these total losses all fronts, or just for the German fighter groups defending the 'Reich'? The summaries I've seen for German losses in 1943 show the losses were heavy over the Mediterranean.

Also are those numbers only combat losses, or do they include the losses from accidents and mechanical failures? In 1943 those were rising for the Axis as pilot training and aircraft manufacturing quality declined.

... Unlike the Americans, though, the Germans weren't able to make good their losses and that attrition "set them up" for the final death blow in early-1944. That raises the possibility that the 1943 Americans bomber forces might have been able to break the Luftwaffe before the Luftwaffe broke the American bomber forces had they kept up their tempos, but I haven't seen anyone sit down and crunch the numbers on that.

Maybe the numbers I remember are wrong, but it looks not so much like the Germans were not making good on losses in this period, but that they could not keep up with Allied increases. Depending on who's numbers you use a& how they are interpreted the Allies out numbered the Germans in operational aircraft in the Europe/Mediterranean theaters by 3-1 at the start of 1943 & by better than 4-1 at the end of the year. It looks like that difference is due to a increase in Allied strength vs a net loss of German strength.
 
To help understand the context... Are these total losses all fronts, or just for the German fighter groups defending the 'Reich'? The summaries I've seen for German losses in 1943 show the losses were heavy over the Mediterranean.

Total losses all fronts, although the October ones are probably weighted heavily to the latter as by that time the Luftwaffe had pretty much withdrawn the overwhelming majority of it's groups to the Reich. Strategy for Defeat does make it clear that the Sicilian-Italian landings and Kursk also contributed to the spike in July and August but the weight of losses for October were likely felt over the homeland.
 
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