theo,
did you really mean "Matterhorn"?
please see the quote below:
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For the "Wilde Sau" operation, fighters of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Focke-Wulf Fw 190 types were used. These day fighters did not have any night hunting equipment, such as radio measuring devices for enemy detection, and were therefore not very suitable for night flight. In order to be able to use them nevertheless, one used a tactic which Hajo Herrmann called "Mattscheibe". Here the anti-aircraft artillery fired flare grenades hanging on parachutes, the fighters dropped the same flare bombs. At the same time fires on the ground and cascades of lights ("Christmas trees") illuminated the airspace. Spotlight batteries, which stood in the defensive bars in front of the cities as well as in the cities themselves, lit up existing clouds. The silhouettes of the attacking bombers then appeared on this "screen". The fighters could attack. In the same period the anti-aircraft artillery stopped firing in order not to endanger the fighters. So the day fighters could only be deployed over the target of the bombers and only during an ongoing attack.
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source:
german wikipedia
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilde-...tjagdverfahren