but the Bf 109's were armed, the centerline cannon was removed but the cowling mg's were retained so once firing the pilot could use it as an aiming point on the tail especailly of the B-17's, though B-24's were also attacked. operated by Schulen pilots JG 300 offered a supply as well as JG 53 and two other single engine units. JG 7 was to be the high cover against the US P-51 escorts but did not follow this and attacked the US heavies with success.

if you note the keynote German speaker was friend Fritz M. He and I had a lengthy discussion whether or not they would even participate in the History Channel dogfight episode, and I suggested they (meaning former German pilots) not do so because of the track record of the H.S. to get the story simply correct. Well Fritz and the others did give their stories but they were so foreshortened which sad did not fully explain tactics nor outcome of each of the members during the attack, in fact Fritz on two spots in the doc was cut off short I noted, including another one of the German pilots. a month after this was shown from this past fall we chatted again for some time and he was quite upset in the way he was personally handled and the way the doc was applied without their full knowledge of what was to be the true design of the "Kamikaze episode".