How many bombs were dropped over Britain, per day, during the blitz?

Question

how many were incendiary and high explosives if possible...

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Answer 1

Throughout the London Blitz, over a million incendiaries and around 50,000 high explosive bombs were dropped on London.

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English...
http://www.ltmcollection.org/resources/i...
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commo...

According to this site, 36,000 bombs had been dropped on London by the end of November:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/30/a6655430.shtml

A more reliable figure is the tonnage of bombs. 18,800 tons of high explosives were dropped on London during the Blitz (September 1940 to May 1941). London was attacked about 150 times during this period.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/battle_of_britain_04.shtml

So basically we are talking an average of about 125 tons of high explosive bombs, or 330 bombs, per raid. This implies the average bomb weighed around 750lb, which sounds about right (1 ton = 2000lb).

As far as incendiaries are concerned, a million incendiaries over 150 raids would imply an average of 6,667 incendiaries per raid. But according to wikipedia, 13,000 tons of bombs and 1 million incendiaries had already been dropped by mid-November:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz

That suggests that maybe around 1.5 million incendiaries were dropped on London during the entire Blitz, so almost 10,000 per raid.

These are just the figures for London. For Britain as a whole, around 35,000 tons of high explosive bombs were dropped during the course of the Blitz. Raids outside London were more sporadic, but also heavier on average.

For example, on 14 November 1940 the Luftwaffe dropped around 500 tons of bombs and 36,000 incendiaries on Coventry. On 15 April 1941 it attacked Belfast with over 200 tons of bombs and 96,000 incendiaries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Blitz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast_blitz

If we made a very rough estimate of 90,000 high explosive bombs and 2.5 million incendiaries dropped on Britain during the entire course of the Blitz, that would imply an average of 365 high explosive bombs and 10,000 incendiaries dropped on Britain each day. (The Blitz lasted for 246 days, from 7 September 1940 to 10 May 1941, but there were not raids on every single day.)

Answer 2

dont know but it must be a lot i do know that in one day the germans sent over there entire air force it could in the thousands