Bf110's actions on 12 october 1944, Ponikev Velké area

[Evgeny Velichko]

Greetings gents!

Sorry for this bad english, but this is what google translator made:

Logachev Vladimir G.
3 MinBatr, 339 SP, 120 GvSD, 3rd Shock Army of 2nd Byelorussian Front.

Remember, of course, the episode, when the October 12, 1944 near the village Ponikev Velké our company actually destroyed the mortar shell. We then fought to expand the bridgehead. Our aviation at that time dominant in the air, and that blunt our vigilance.Our company, and we had 4 officers, sergeant and 29 soldiers from 6 mortars, stopped near some hill. Shoot at the Germans, and founded a pause. Rather than follow the requirements of the statute dig around, the soldiers began to relax, some walked around and our foreman ran shouting: «I pick off a rabbit, fry him».Our commanders, too, instead of thinking about their soldiers, thinking only about how to cook a rabbit. At this point two German aircraft flew to us, it seems, they were fighter-bombers «Messershmitt-110». First they dropped a cluster bomb and then fired at us out of the cannon and machine guns. Of the whole company remained intact, only 8 people, the rest were wounded or killed ... Hard wounded my friend Nikolay Suhopyatkin, but he remained alive. All our kommanders ran into one hole, but they hit the wall and they were just smashed by the rocks from which in the field constructing all the buildings ...

So, my questions is:

Who could be those Bf110's? Night fighters? Any suggestions about regiment?