Corgi AA38502 Me110G-4 – G9,12NJG1 – Oberleutnant Wolfgang Schnaufer, St Trond – Feb 1944

The Messerschmitt Bf110 served with success in the early rounds of the war. The aircraft’s lack of agility in the air was exposed as its primary weakness during the Battle of Britain, when some Bf110 equipped units were withdrawn from the battle after very heavy losses and redeployed as night fighters, a role to which the aircraft was well suited. The Bf110 enjoyed a successful period following the defeat over Britain as an air superiority fighter and strike aircraft. Later in the war it was changed further to night fighter operations, and it became the major night fighter type of the Luftwaffe. Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (16 February 1922