Word: 110s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flak around Hanover but not a fighter until we got near the IP (Initial Point). That first baby came in dead ahead-zingity dow. Then there were about 25 of them-110s, 190s and 410s-the 190s are the worst...
...Those 110s were rocket-firing. First they made a pass through our formation with machine guns blinking, then they came up behind and threw their rockets...
...first enemy waves had the job of breaking up the bomber squadrons. Rocket-firing planes stayed out of gun range, fired broadsides from formation. To the U.S. crews, the battle at this stage had a weird naval quality. A Fortress gunner watched a group of 18 twin-engined Me-110s circle from the rear, fly up in line three-quarters of a mile away; then, like torpedo boats, execute a superb 90-degree turn and lob their rockets simultaneously-"a broadside of rockets that seemed to burst in an unending line of red and yellow fire." Some bombers were under...
...Goebbels cabled Bengasi for all the eyewitnesses the traffic would bear. Soon a squadron of Messerschmitt 110s from Africa settled down on Berlin's Staaken Airfield, unloaded bags of stories, pictures and records made by field microphonists, for whose transmission the German radio canceled a whole day's program. From one Messerschmitt stepped German War Reporter Lutz Koch, his face still grimy with African sand, bearing a story which the newspapers titled Yesterday I Was With Rommel...
...into a bird sanctuary. By 1936, British complaints that Adolf Hitler was refortifying Helgoland, rebuilding its moles, were audible but ineffective. Sand suckers re-dredged the anchorage to accommodate warcraft. Near the southeast foot of the headland was built an air base. Lieut. Colonel Schumacher claimed that his Messerschmitt 110s last week prevented British planes from bombing Helgoland. Britain claimed to have bombed Helgoland as well as Sylt...