Good assessment. It reduced 1000 bomber raids to a single plane.
Richard Rhodes, who wrote “Making of the Atomic Bomb”, said in a book signing I attended for a later work that Curtis LeMay had the worst job of the Cold War. Essentially to make sure that NO bombers got through. LeMay, based on his experience in Europe and Japan knew that bombers always got through.
Read this one - LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay
When he arrived in Europe, the bombing campaign wasn’t working at all because no bombs were reaching the targets. His assessment was “why bother” sending planes out if they weren’t hitting targets.
His design of organized formations of bombers changed all that. He was a civil engineering graduate of Ohio State, and applied that education to methodically solve problems.