[Don Caldwell]

Thanks, David -- you've got the answer! (And if you're quoting Alfred Price's classic book from memory, you're to be congratulated.) There it is on p. 130 of the 1973 edition -- a summary table of Luftflotte Reich activity for Jan-Jun 44, with a Daventry column which Dr. Price states contains "the losses admitted by the Allies and broadcast over the BBC overseas transmitter at Daventry, figures generally accepted by the Germans as being accurate." So the Luftwaffe commanders had a daily check of true Allied losses, which were frequently much less than those broadcast on the daily Wehrmacht communiqué. The German population was forbidden to listen to the BBC, of course, but the commanders obviously had a "need to know".

Thanks again.

Don