Losses dominate written history because damage, casualties, and system failures require detailed explanation. An aircraft attack that misses or is broken up may receive only a sentence even though such unsuccessful attacks were common in the Bay of Biscay. This imbalance can make the attacker's successes seem typical and obscure the cumulative effectiveness of fighters, heavy guns, and medium anti-aircraft fire. The space devoted to failures can therefore obscure how often the defensive system worked.
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Why successful air defense disappears from the story
Accounts devote pages to the rare attack that hits and sentences to the many attacks driven off, making escort air defense look less effective than it was.