I think it was from the 1930’s to 1950’s that 600 planes were lost primarily because the idiots in Washington were slow to realize that firing on the craft was essentially suicidal.
There’s quite a bit of data released on it.
Researching such before wildly presumptive pontificating could save some embarrassment.
I forget precisely . . . may have been 600 personnel but I think it was 600 of our and allies’ aircraft lost over a 10 year or so span—including some civilian craft that somehow got zapped in the process. But it may have been 600 people lost in such incidents.