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Originally Posted by Denniss
no drop tanks on Me 410 though
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National Archives AIR40/207:
Crashed at 04.30 hours at Manor Farm, Frankton near Rugby after collision with an Airspeed Oxford: 9K+Z? — Z in black with yellow outline. 42 on base of fin in black; below this on fuselage 750 in black on white ground.
Camouflage: blue-grey on upper surfaces and light grey undersides (spray painted). Carried two external 300 litre tanks. Armament: 4 x MG 151 cannon (two of which in the bomb bay); 2 x MG 17; 2 x MG 131.
Simon W. Parry, Intruders Over Britain: The Luftwaffe Night Fighter Offensive 1940–45 (Air Research Publications, Surbiton, 1987).
… Me 410A-1, WNr. 420445 9K+ZP of Stab II./KG 51. Collided with Oxford LX196 of No. 18 (P)AFU near Church Lawford airfield … Lt. Wolfgang Wenning and Fw. Gustav Delp killed.