Yep.

Just another opinion.

What you have failed to provide are any contemporary sources that the Bf 110 was escorted whilst it was used as an escort fighter.
The luftwaffe was not short on absurdities but this is a bit of a stretch.

What no-one is suggesting is that the Bf 110 was a great dog figher when compared to single engined fighters. Like almost any small twin engined aircraft of the time its survivability rested on speed. Or to put it as an hypothetical: How well would the much celebrated DH Mosquito have fared if it were to escort bombers on daylight raids?

Escorting bombers robbed the 110 of that speed but in the early days of the BoB the luftwaffe lacked anything else that had the necerssary range. As soon as the luftwaffe learned to put external tanks on the 109 why would it then continue to send out 110 as escorts? Surely that is just doubling the work of the 109 pilots?

This is crux of OP’s question.

Like Jack Windsor I have been reasearching McCain and coming up with the same.

Now the faslehoods I have seen spread largely by Trump supporters (or more likely in many caases trolls in support of Trump) is the McCain started the fire by wet starting his A4 that cooked off a missile in another aircraft. That is BS.

His actions during and after the event bear closer scrutiny especially as his own accounts differ with other veterans and his own.

There have been several associates, fund raisers, friends and cohorts who have been charged, and not small stuff either.

REzko? Obama was dumb dealing with him but he wasn’t the only politician to do so.
Ayers. Being appointed to the same board doesn’t mean you’re best mates.
A couple more but you really need to dig to find them.
In government to only indictment was General Petraeus.
And its noting to the scale of what is being dug up about the Trump administration. Nixon will have to settle for being in second place.

I’ll have my say on McCain.
I can’t fault hik for is bravery and dedication to his country.
Whereas his escapades in civilian and politics -at least until be became a rare critical voice the teh GOP- will be looked upon less kindly.
And there is no harm in in that. Everything John McCain did in politics he did willingly and we owe future historians the truth.

What is striking is how willingly many of Trump’s followers have fallen for the lies about his time on captivity in N. Vietnam and on the USS Forrestal purely because they are aping Trump’s rather petty and vindictive opinons. He never does seem able to take criticism well.
From a party that likes to see itself as champions of the military I find that rather striking.

And in a reply to Matt Gunsch, though I do respect that you have a right to your opinion, I wonder if you can tell us how many of Obama’s close associates have been indicted on criminal charges versus Trump’s?

Spources please, Chad. Provide sources likes Snopes does.
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he report went onto state that as a result of this battle that the ‘Me110 altho’ very fast and manoeuvrable for a twin engine aircraft, can easily be outmanoeuvred by a Hurricane’.

If you take the above quote as unexceptional, then the answer to the OPs question is yes, the 110 needed the protection of more agile single seater fighters when operating in the fighter role.

The comments regard the manoeuverability of the Bf110 versus the Hurricane, not its speed. The Bf110 being faster than the Hurricane might not have needed an escort if speed was used as a defense.

Much would depend on how the Luftwaffe instructed its Bf110 pilots on the type’s do’s and don’ts. I would assume one of the big don’ts was not to get in a dogfight with nimble single seat fighters.

The Tobago crash apparently involved two children among the four fatalities.

RIP those invloed in both crashes.

Ah, the Botha:

“This aeroplane is complete junk and the only chance of it killing Germans is if we let them fly it! They’re unfit for service and we’ve got over 500 of the blasted things. What should we do?”

“I heard the training units could do woth a few planes.”

“Capital idea! That’ll sort the wheat from the chaff.”

Just seen that Sheppard33 on post #39 has on offer a instruction book for an AS Genet.
https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?91762-Original-DH-airframe-Engine-Manuals/page2

Would that be of help?