Me110: Ill-used in BoB

[George Hopp]

Hello Jim
one must remember that gunner in 110 wasn’t strapped as pilot onto his seat, otherwise he couldn’t use his gun effectively. After all he needed to align his head with the gunbarrel to take a proper aim. There are cases that even gunners of 410s didn’t stay on their seats during hard defensive manoeuvring in 44.

I'm not certain I understand the above comment, Juha. Are you saying that the gunner in the 110 simply wore a lap strap, or are you saying that the gunner would not wear the lap strap. The latter would, in my view, be somewhat dangerous for the gunner if the pilot got into some extreme positions and he ended up being thrown out through the canopy top panel.

And there will be no more 110 writings from me. I have exhausted all of my research material. Everything I had is now in the books.

I'm sorry to hear that, John, as I have always found your books to be of excellent quality.