Hi kidlyrs,
You may be onto something. Here are the loss numbers for the Eighth AF in Europe, courtesy of USAF Maxwell Air University.
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/a...b/Werrell.html
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to add the 9000 losses to the 15th AF losses. Then find and add in the Brit and Russian losses. If you come up with less than the 14,000 claims of the Luftwaffe you would be on track to find some overclaiming.