We Lose ....
actual losses..?
claims on both sides of conflict usually were inflated...
In this case the number is pretty accurate. The 8th Air Force website gives 30 B-17s lost and 1 P-47. The numbers in the paper were generally fairly good for losses on our side. An exception that comes to mind was when about 60 B-17s were lost on a mission to Schweinfurt in August. The first number reported in the Times was half that, although it was corrected in subsequent days. The inflation happened with estimates of enemy losses.