I think that the Soviet might have gone on t take Madgeburg, Lepizig, and possibly advance the Soviet occupation zone later
Something to note about the 1943 bombing campaign is that while American strategic bombers took terrible losses, so too did the German fighters who had to intercept them. According to Strategy For Defeat, German fighter losses jumped from hovering around 20% for the first six months of 1943 to 31.2% in July, 36% in August, and peaked at astonishing 41% in October before falling back down to 21% in November with the suspension of the major bombing campaign. ...
... Unlike the Americans, though, the Germans weren't able to make good their losses and that attrition "set them up" for the final death blow in early-1944. That raises the possibility that the 1943 Americans bomber forces might have been able to break the Luftwaffe before the Luftwaffe broke the American bomber forces had they kept up their tempos, but I haven't seen anyone sit down and crunch the numbers on that.
To help understand the context... Are these total losses all fronts, or just for the German fighter groups defending the 'Reich'? The summaries I've seen for German losses in 1943 show the losses were heavy over the Mediterranean.