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Help with Ju 88 & Wappen
Gents
I really appreciate all of your respective inputs into my original question concerning the Wappen and the aircraft itself.
To be honest, I was very short for time when I posted this last night, and I was expecting the Wappen to be positively identified rather quickly as a unit not associated with KG 30 at all, the reasons for which I shall explain below.
A short time ago I purchased a group of documents relating to Georg Eberle, Bordfunker with Kampfgeschwader 30. Among the items were 2 post-war (very poorly) re-printed photographs, one of which contains the Wappen on the image posted on this thread, and the other showing a full crew in front of the same aircraft. However, as the images are very blurred, it is very difficult to ascertain whether the images actually show Eberle as many, many Luftwaffe document groups have been 'added to' in order to enhance the value by unscrupulous dealers in the past. Consequently, I was very pleased to read of the Wappen being associated with Murmansk, as his Flugbuch and Leistungbuch have several missions entered for this target.
In this case as it happens, the man leaning out of the cockpit window does bear a resemblance to Eberle, or at least the image on his Bordfunkerschein, and it may well indeed be him, especially with the Murmansk link associated to his aircraft (however, I am under no illusion that it also may not be)
Now to his unit assignments. As I now have Eberle's Soldbuch, I can catagorically state he did not at any point serve in 1./KG 30, in fact from 1941 to 1943 he flew exclusively with 2./Kampfgeschwader 30. As a result of this, can I take it that this is an as yet unrecorded Kampfgeschwader Wappen?
Anyway Gents, thank you all again for your help and I am still hoping that the man in the cockpit can be positively identified as Eberle.
Regards Richard.
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