ah yes Martin Ian Hawkins Münster book, Bloody skies over Germany which I won may be a remake of the way it was ? exceelent regardless. Also did you pikc up the May 1990 copy of the supplement to the work "7 days in October" ?? by Paul M. Andrews. A small booklet cream coloured paper cover around 31 pages described in summary each US 8th AF bomber loss in that terrible 7 days of action over the Reich.
You may note in you Hawkins volume a German chap by the name of Helmut Zittier, flew a Bf 110G-2 with the ugly Br 21cm rocket launchers. Quite an interesting fellow to interview some years ago..........another veteran that has passed on. A Test pilot in later war with about every single and twin engine the Luftwaffe could produce.

A short story real quick if I may in his ZG after a US heavy bomber encounter, Helmut had just landed his Bf 110G-2 when an a/c from the unit a G-4 night fighter equipped with the standard Br 21cm rocket launchers, two under each wing came in a hard land and was bouncing to a stop, took a hard turn and a still un-launched rocket fired out of the tube right into the hanger that Helmut was coasting his Bf 110G towards. A huge explosion of course developed as two Bf 110G-2 exploded within the hanger. he never did tell me whatever happened to the Bf 110G-4 pilot that came in so abruptly, except to state that the crew had a terrible time trying to keep up formation due to the hevy cannon, rockets and the radar antlers fitted to the night fighter .......

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