Fw Thier I/NJG1

[ianatheling]

Originally Posted by Brian

Marcel wrote in connection with I/NJG1:
...Feldwebel Thier who was shot down near Paderborn by a Bf110 flying a lone night fighting sortie. ... An over-ambitious single-engine pilot from the field at Paderborn was also airborne on his own initiative on a "night-fighting" sortie;

I am slightly confused, the beginning of this quote clearly refers to the guilty fighter as a Bf110, but it is then described as a 'single engine' aircraft, so presumably a night-fighting Bf 109.

Is there any information on the source of friendly fire?

Ian