Dunno about overrated but my stepfather swore one particular violent chukabout saved his bacon in late 43. He survived 68 ops and reckoned that in all he was involved in 8 precautionary and two actual 'under attack' evasions. The late 43 event was on his second Lancaster op after converting from the Stirling, he was adamant that had the ME110 that trounced them, pounced whilst they were still flying the 'Belfast bomber' then they wouldn't have got away with it. I recall that he noted that two versions of the screw were taught the 'little and large' ? Comments as to difference please.
The cannon splinters in the right shoulder of his Irvin show how close they came to the chop. The ME110 went down care of the mid upper.
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