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Originally Posted by keith A
Excellent, thanks Alex. I suppose the pilots of III.JG54 weren't used to seeing British 4-engiine bombers and the Halifax and Lancaster tails look a bit like B-24' Apparently several bombers were also heavily damaged, but it does seem like the LW fighter pilots had a bit of a feeding frenzy and imagined they'd done a lot more damage than is evident from RAF records.
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Keith you are correct. All pilots in WWII had bad recognition problems. An ME-410 was a Ju 88, Halifaxes were B-24s, ad infinitum. Comes from not studying the photos and silhouettes. Unlike us latter day experten with all kinds of time, they only had 2-5 seconds to get the ID right.