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Gothas and HPs were mostly used as night bombers.
I thought both were used mostly as day bombers, even if the Gotha switched to night ops later on.

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It lets the rear gunner get all kinds of shots even from below.
This was the idea behind the infamous Defiant. When it worked it worked really well, like when the rear gunner in one Defiant massacred a Stuka flight in a matter of seconds. But the problem was of course the enemy fighters...


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