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Re: Junkers Ju 88, Vol. 3. Day and Nightfighters. Development - Equipment - Operations 1940 - 1945.
A small addition and one correction to point 1 of post #44 above.
Somewhat belatedly, I checked for reports of WNr. 0098's subsequent career. Matti Salonen's database includes a record for the 20% damage of WNr. 0098 on 3-Apr-42 with Fl.Schule.d.Lw. (S); the aircraft now being shown as an A-5 i.e. it had been retrofitted with the longer wing introduced to series production with the Ju 88 A-5. This confirms that the use of 0098 as a flying test bed for the fighter armament configuration had indeed been only a passing phase.
Looking at the above I'm afraid I mis-spoke regarding the Stkz. of 0098. My statement needs to be corrected to: "I have found no documents to support this, but the case seems to be that CN+NT was WNr. 0098, and this aircraft was nothing more than an Erprobungsträger, and accordingly was never assigned a V-Nummer." (i.e. it was 0096 that was CN+NR, the aircraft apparently used as a development machine for the Ju 88 C-6, but subsequently reported 50% damaged on 8-Oct-41 as a Ju 88 C-1 with FFS C 6)
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