[Marius]

Hello there, everything is possible. But you cannot shoot at the same bomber 30 min long staying at one point. One formation of Wellingtons - as I understand it was one diamond formation of 21 Wellingtons flying away from Wilhelmshaven and attacked by II./JG 77 - is flying in that time appr. 150 km away.

For one example let us look at the island of Borkum;
First kills were made there at 14.40 hours. More at 14.45, 14.50, 15.00, 15.06. Maybe with a few mistaken times and places - this is not possible. It couldn`t have been the same formation of bombers again and again.

What I can imagine with 149, 9 & 37 Sqd`s are 3 or 4 waves, one formation after another with intervals of 10 minutes to each other. This could be an explanation for time expansion of German claims.
But this was not the case. (?)

Regards,