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Re: "Daventry" broadcasts of USAAF + RAF losses
Some years ago, I owned a book by Alfred Price about the air war. The title was something like "Battle Over The Reich." This book had an appendix with a table called "Daventry figures." He wrote that the Allied loss figures were broadcast every day by this source and the German accepted them as accurate. As I recall, Price wrote that Daventry numbers or losses was what the Germans called them. I am certain that Price did not speculate why the BBC was giving out the Allied loss numbers.
By the way, American newspapers gave the loss figures. You can look at the microfilm of a major American newspaper of March 7, 1944 and it will list the American losses of the day before as 69 bombers and 11 fighters. Many years ago, I spent a day at a college library copying the numbers from a microfilm reader for the major 1944 raids.
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