 In August 1943, 248 single and 86 twin-engine fighters were destroyed.Ominously, American fighter escorts were gaining greater penetrations into German airspace restricting the amount of time and space German fighter pilots had to intercept American bombers.Jeschonnek and fellow staff officers had ignored the industrial, technical and logistical basis that modern wars were fought on; "that curious blindness which led him in early 1942 to wonder what the "Luftwaffe" would do with 360 fighters had now led his air force and nation into a hopeless situation."