"FRANCE-Although Ninth Air Force and allied bombing laid waste so much German equipment in France that pictures of knocked out Nazi installations are a dime a dozen nowadays this photo of a Me-410 lying with a broken back in a former Hienie airdrome typifies the complete breaking into pieces of the once dreaded Luftwaffe, now so impotent that a German aircraft in the allied sky is almost a curiosity. " - A wrecked Me-410A-3 7A+EH (Werke Nbr. 170134) sits inside a collapsed hangar on a Villacoublay airfield, fall of 1944.