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This suggests there was no such victory prior to May 43 (such as Schoenert's victory on 21 Apr 43). This would leave the Japanese as the first to employ this arrangement. Is this your understanding?
Rick Dunn
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Please make up your mind, Rick. First you asked about 1st usage, which was by the RFC in WW1 when they were used to attack German Zeppelins with incendiary bullets from below because they were unable to climb to the altitude of those craft.
Then you asked about German usage, which again was answered. And, based on that you say that the Japanese must have been the first to use oblique weapons. Based on what has been said so far, there is no proof of that. Especially as we don't know whether or not the oblique installations in the Dorniers were used or not. And, finally, who cares. It was obviously a practical solution to the vexing problem of shooting down bombers with tail guns, and different people came up with the same solution at about the same time.