Re: Me110: Ill-used in BoB
Stephen Bungay writes about this in his book "The Most Dangerous Enemy".
He comes to the conclusion:
"It [the Luftwaffe] had all and precisely the weapons it needed at its disposal. What mattered in attacking the ground targets was bombing accuracy. Stukas could deliver the accuracy, but were too vulnerable and were needed later to attack the Royal Navy when the invason commenced. The key weapon was the Bf 110. Had all the Zerstörer crews been retrained to deliver fast, low-level pin-point attacks in the way that Erprobungsgruppe 210 were, Göring would have had a war-winning weapon in his hands.
The radar stations were difficult to destroy, but they were all on the coast, which made them vulnerable to two tactics: air attacks by squadrons of Bf 110s and commando raids."
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