soc.history.war.world-war-ii

"Dave Smith" wrote in message
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> In reference to comments about the B-26 having the lowest losses, I
> found a site that made the claim, but was unable to find anything about
> the nature of the operations on which they were used that might explain
> that.


The Bomber Command Mosquitos which bombed all over
Germany and occupied Europe made:
39,795 sorties and lost 260 (0.65%) of sorties,
50 operational crashes 50 (0.13%) of sorties.
Ref: The Bomber Command War Diaries.

39,795 sorties and lost 254 (0.63%) bomb tonnage 26,867.
Ref:Mosquito by C. Martin Sharp & Michael J. F. Bowyer


I do not know of any other aircraft that bombed the same
targets at the same time period with a better record.
Perhaps the B-26s had the lowest losses in the USAAF
but it was not better than the Mosquito.