failure to launch

[Pete McCullagh]

If it is relatively easy to raise flight limit, might be a good idea. If you launch 10 major raids, (300plus ac) say 7 from England plus 3 from Italy, you will generate lots of stragglers, say 15% from flak, plus 1 for 50% of combats. That is just allies. If raids are staggered thru the day it is possible for some axis units to launch 3-4 times,each time generating stragglers. That is not counting night missions, heavy flak creates lots of stragglers for them. When you get a clear day after 3-4 days of heavy cloud, you want to send everything!!

[Pete McCullagh]

If you are interested I have saved another example of low night interceptor response. Had a big day, allied loss 162,axis282, only two axis interceptor staffels launched. Allied raid 547bmb. Day time raids were spread out to avoid 2k limit. Let me know if anyone wants acopy of this