Thanks for the reply Wojtek Isure do like the daytime crate but cannot really tell if there is a difference in the nose?I found this interesting little tidbit..........
The nose carried the factory standard four 7.9mm MG, and not the more familiar 30mm cannon. Drewes told me that he did not like the cannon, and instructed his ground crew to exchange them for the machine guns, because the cannons blasted huge pieces of the bomber. These could seriously damage his fighter, as the shooting distance was never beyond a mere 35 met
source:http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/drewesmb_1.htm
and some more.....
Martin Drewes finished the war with a grand total of 52 victories, consisting of a Spitfire, a Gladiator, 7 day bombers (B-17 and B-24), and 43 British night bombers, most of them the lateAs to have some interesting insight in another role of the Nachtjagdfliegern (nightfighting pilots), I was talking to Drewes, a true gentleman, at his home when he told me that indeed G9+WD was an ex-nightfighter transformed into a Tagzerstörer (Heavy Day Fighter) for intercepting American bomber formations of B-17 and B-24 crossing the Reich in 1943 - when escort fighters were rare sights over Germany - with its radar set removed for increased speed, and no belly 20mm twin cannons pack as well, for the same reason.
However, he had another aircraft for specific nightfighting, G9+MD, with no personal markings, complete with the radar set, etc., so he had two available aircraft, each for a specific role. Indeed, only pilots with less than 20 night victories would reinforce the day fighters struggle against the intruders of the Reich airspace, as the others were considered too valuable to be inevitably spent in dayfighting with the ever growing menace, at the time, of the allied escort fighters.
One night, after detecting an unsuspecting Lancaster in the bomber stream, into which he mixed up thanks to Erich Handke (his excellent Bordfunker, or radar-operator, Ritterkreuzträger, or Knight's Cross bearer, in German), he proceed to make the conventional Schräge Musik attack, right from below, spreading the these guns fire from the inboard left engine till the starboard one (a vital area, with fuel tanks half full, so with a lot of fuel vapours to cause a huge explosion if hit...), but in this case, the unaware bomber initiated a right turn, and the 2-3 second shot got itself concentrated on the BOMB BAY, STILL FULL OF ITS DEADLY CARGO!!! The bomber disintegrated, and took Drewes and its crew with it, through an incredible amount of debris, which dilacerated the Bf-110G-4 (G9+MD)...they all had to jump immediately for their lives from the plane's blazing hulk!!! One schrapnel hit the gunner's (Oberfeldwebel Petz) wristwatch, stopping it right at the moment of the explosion: 01:19hs...
After this incident,and the recuperation of he and his crew, Drewes then took old G9+WD back to its more appropriated affairs of nightfighting, and so the story goes...
st Bomber Command weapon, Lancasters. He was one of a few to receive the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves in the German armed forces.