I listened to a rather good brief by a RAF Regiment Officer the other day in which he gave the stats that in WW2 the axis powers lost 18,000 aircraft to ground based attack and the figure for the US in Vietnam was 1,800.
I’ve no reason to doubt him - and the figures do give a new slant to the ‘carriers are so vulnerable’ argument. Seems the risks of the sea base as compared to those faced by non movable airfields might not be balanced the way some folk put forward.