The British never tumbled onto the fact that their bombers were often
shredded
by the German schregemusik (sp), the upward firing guns of the night
fighters.
They only found out about this after the war.

Hmmm. After the Invasion and the LW bases were overrun in the Low Countries
and France, there were plenty of examples of SM among the junkwaffe that
littered the continent. Dozens of bombers had limped home in the preceeding
months with damage that clearly indicated the angle of the attack - the Brits
had figured it out, but there was no equitable method of countering SM-equipped
fighters, other than preaching against "fire watching" and hammering home the
need for increased vigilance on the part of the gunners.

v/r
Gordon
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USN SAR

Its always better to lose -an- engine, not -the- engine.