Me-410 vs Mosquito combat

[Paul Thompson]

Originally Posted by Chris Goss

Paul
It was in their Luftwaffe Special Last year and entitled 'Hornets over England'
Chris

Hello Chris,

I have now read your article, thank you very much for directing me to it! The extracts from Luftwaffe logbooks were particularly interesting. I have a couple of questions:

Were the Me 410’s barbette guns effective? In the article, return fire by Me 410 gunners is mentioned twice, without any results. I had been under the impression that the Me 410 had better defensive armament than many other Luftwaffe types, but this appears to be incorrect.

Do you know of any source that discusses the overall numbers of sorties flown and bombs dropped by V./KG 2 and I./KG 51 against Britain? It appears that this effort, desultory as it was, might have been greater in scale than the Ju 88 missions on the Eastern front at this time. That underlines the point that Steinbock taken as a whole was a remarkable waste of effort!

Regards,

Paul