Luftwaffe Myths

[Kutscha]

but because of its much more technically ambitious nature, it took a year longer to be fit for operations.

That was typical of Germany, forgetting the KISS principal.

The He177 was still a relatively bug ridden a/c, even into 1944.

[RT]

In October 1941, Hitler forbad all night intruder activities of NJG 2 over the British bases, because he wanted RAF bombers being shot down over German territory to show his people that the Luftwaffe was doing its work. For over three years, RAF bombers were able to take off and assemble without any interference (apart from the short-lived "Gisela Unternehmen").

In 1944 the Me410 of KG2 flew intrusion, they had some success against the Bomber
He177 hs been a failure because germans came late in dev. powerful motors nd no material to build Turbo, in any other case when we compare german cars nd american or brits, no speaking of the russian ones, they would built better
CJE great idea to hv change mat picture

Remi

[mars]

Originally Posted by RT

In October 1941, Hitler forbad all night intruder activities of NJG 2 over the British bases, because he wanted RAF bombers being shot down over German territory to show his people that the Luftwaffe was doing its work. For over three years, RAF bombers were able to take off and assemble without any interference (apart from the short-lived "Gisela Unternehmen").

In 1944 the Me410 of KG2 flew intrusion, they had some success against the Bomber
He177 hs been a failure because germans came late in dev. powerful motors nd no material to build Turbo, in any other case when we compare german cars nd american or brits, no speaking of the russian ones, they would built better
CJE great idea to hv change mat picture

Remi

This was a myth itself, in that time, the night fighter tactics was still in its infancy, and Luftwaffe only had very limited resource committing in its Nachtjager force, so in order to defend against the attack of RAF bomber commander, Luftwaffe HAD TO concentrate its limit night fighter units in the Europe coninent, see Peter Hinchliffe's "The Other Battle: Luftwaffe Night Aces Versus Bomber Command"