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Originally Posted by Nokose
Did the Luftwaffe every use there bombers to try to strike the 8th AF on the airfields in England to eliminate them? It seems even night raids would have taken out some of the bombers on the ground. They had to know the locations of the bases for the bombers and fighters. Killing civilians was a terrible waste of effort.
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Curiously no. II./KG51 plus a squadron of Me 410s snuck into trail for a B-24 BG arriving at home base after dark and shot down or badly damaged 14 B-24s. It caused the USAAF to allocate a flight of fighters at each fighter base to be a 'ready alert' flight and energised base defense anti aircraft drills.
AFAIK the LW in their infinite wisdom didn't see the value in attcking UK airbases after dark when there was no realistic defense against low level Ju 88 oe Me 410 attacks.