I remember after the Falklands War a chap I knew who had been a FE on Bomber Command remarking on the total British casualties (255 killed) that they could lose more than that in a night on a large raid.
Didn't make the Falklands casualties any less tragic, of course, but I sort of saw his point.
Yep, they lost more than that on the 'milk run' to Mailly le Camp on a moonlit night in Northern France just before D-Day.
I suppose scale doesn't make it any easier, but he DID have a point, quite right.