Attention to all Finns! Mr Spoden & Mr Scheer in Finland

[Juha]

Hello Eric

put it short, they showed a slide on Spoden's Bf 110 with Lichtenstein taken during a daytime training flight and a slide on Scheer's Ju 88 C, also with a Lichtenstein set, and also a slide where Scheer was standing aside of the tail of a Fw 189 modified to a night fighter.
Spoden mostly told on the general technical and tactical matters and developments of LW night fighter force during the war which You know already well if You are the Eric I assume You are. But he also told his daytime attack on B-17 box after which he was forced to make a belly landing because of hits from return fire, his feelings during the Battle of Hamburg etc.
Scheer told for example on his first combat mission during which he got his first victory, on the night when he got 5 victories during 2 sorties. He also told that the German radio intelligence was very good on Eastern Front. How they even got right radio beacon maps on Soviet radio beacons for long range night fighter missions against Soviet bomber fields even if Soviet changed the locations of their beacons very often.
Both think that Ju 88 was a better night fighter than Bf 110, and both liked Boeing 747. The most dangerous enemy was Mosquito. When asked both agreed that Locheed Constellation was a nice plane for pilot's point of view, even if it had its pecularities and this in spite of its engines. Scheer repeated the common oppinion that it was the best 3 engine passager plane of its time. They talked 1½ - 2 hours and then answered to questions over a ½ hour and then began their signing session during which they also answered to many questions. The whole occasion took almost 4 hours.

HT gave something on that very interesting occasion
Juha