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You’ll want to explain all that to the men of the 91st, 96th and 100th Bomb Groups, each of which suffered over 400% casualties over Europe from spring 1943 to VE Day (there were 48 bombers in a Group). There were about 20 Heavy Bomb Groups in the 8th AF that suffered a minimum of 200% casualties and several among that number had around 300% casualties. The groups that took the highest casualties lost most of their numbers at a disproportionate rate in 1943...
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So, by your standards, these bomb groups were "winning easily" as well. I disagree.
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...What the JGs and ZGs in the West prior to the spring of 1944 were doing looked an awful lot like ‘winning easily’ to them...
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You shouldn't be selling subjective impressions for fact. In a war of attrition, any side that does a mission every day and comes back with 3% loss will think the other side is winning easily, no matter if the other side loses 5% or 0.5% each day on their own.