Invincible Heinkels

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Originally Posted by Kurfürst

Shooting the Heinkel fuselage is pointless. It throughly armored and .303s will just bounce off the armored bulkhead.

Aim for then engines/fuel tanks in the wings.

This.

In fact you need to do this on all bombers.

Do-17, just inside one of the engines will cause a fire to blow off a wing
Ju-88, just outside one of the engines will cause a fire to blow off the wing

Br-20, don't know the answer to this yet - they seem very tough indeed.