Günther Rall, Germany's Last WW2 Ace. Amazing Stories of WW2, in their own words. PART 1/4 - GERMANY'S LAST ACE.
You could say that history repeats itself. This wonderful documentary, filmed by our partners at Air2AirTV (air2airtv.com) is also masterfully narrated by Gary Sinise.
Both Germany and Japan came to use a similar solution for their nightfighters: obliquely mounted cannons.
As far as I'm able to find, both came roughly at the same time (1943, japanese slightly latter) but I do not come across any source that stated that there was any knowledge transfer between...