6560 Sorties in 4 months? That’s 54.67 sorties a day. I suspect this is not correct information.
6560 is the number of sorties by VF-83 in that 4 month period. Don’t know how many planes or pilots in VF-83 at that time. They were flying multiple sorties per day.
Sortie is one aircraft launched one time. 55/day is very busy, but this was a very busy time for US Naval Aviation.
VF-83 formed part of Carrier Air Group 83 (CVG-83) assigned to the USS Essex. CVG-83 was in action in the Pacific theatre from 10 March to 15 September 1945 participating in raids on Kyushu, supporting the invasion of Okinawa, the discovery and sinking of the Japanese battleship Yamato and other air strikes against the Japanese home islands.[2]
That's 189 days ... giving us approx 35 sorties per day for the squadron ... that would be in the neighborhood of two launches per aircraft per day, as opposed to more than three launches per aircraft per day using the March-June timeframe.
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