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Originally Posted by spidge  I just watched a documentary on D-Day. Bombers flying over the D-Day beaches etc were numbered at 5,120*. Was that the true number? |
That would have been the number od sorties, not actual bombers. Many crews flew more than one sortie on the day.
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11,590 aircraft were available to support the landings. On D-Day, Allied aircraft flew 14,674 sorties, and 127 were lost.
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* However, it depends upon how it was worded. The "etc" may imply the number of bombers involved in BC missions, and diversionary missions, including those dropping Window around the Pas de Calais