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I'm not going to reveal too much from my own personal book Moskito-jagd over Deutschland but will give hint(s) to your questions ..............
for your last question you must add the Bf 109G-6/AS and even the Fw 190A.
I'll return later with more.
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Allied night fighters were rare over Germany prior to the Normandy invasion. For instance.
30 March 1944. Attack on Nurenberg.
~800 heavy bombers.
20 Mosquito night fighters escorted the bomber stream.
On this mission Mosquito escort fighters constituted 2% of the total British bomber stream. In other words they were a negligible factor. Bumping into one of the Mosquito escort fighters would be purely a matter of chance.
Why the RAF used so few escort fighters is a mystery to me. They had quite a few Mosquito aircraft by 1944 but typically most were used as path finders and/or to conduct diversionary strikes. Consequently RAF heavy bombers had to fend for themselves.
Welter's claims are controversial, very few can be confirmed. See Dr Theo Boiten's "Nachtjagd War Diaries Vol II" for details.
...I'm also aware of Welter's reputation for low reliability of his claims...
I am also excluding Kurt Welter for now, given his controversy...
Why the RAF used so few escort fighters is a mystery to me. They had quite a few Mosquito aircraft by 1944 but typically most were used as path finders and/or to conduct diversionary strikes. Consequently RAF heavy bombers had to fend for themselves.
Night fighter crews FEARED the Mosquito. How they clung on to their single rear firing MG is instrumental ...
Kris
... and yet now it seems that most Mossies were shot down by the few operational He 219s.
Kris
Perhaps so but bomber guners, aircraft collisions and landing accidents killed a lot more German night fighters then the Mosquito did.
That's certainly true. However it's rather low on the list of things likely to kill a German night fighter pilot. Let's look at the death of Helmut Lent, one of the best night fighter pilots.worrying about a mosquito on my tail is one thing I could probably do without