I didn’t hear anything about Eisenhower’s new HQ in the radio reports from London yesterday or today. They are more interested in the 1,000 plane raids. I might be projecting but I get the impression that the American observers are trying with only partial success to digest the idea that losing 5% of the planes that went on the mission is acceptable. If the reporter interviews a few aircrewmen that figure to go on 20 missions he might get a broader view of the thing.
Unfortunately, the broadcast ends about 2/3 of the way through. Most likely, the third transcription disk was lost.
It’s more palatable to say that 5% of bombers were lost than saying 50 (times a crew of 9 or ten) planes were lost.
In future broadcasts, air crewmen will be interviewed, but not until the Allies are clearly winning the war.