Junkers Ju 88C Day and Nightfighters
(Osprey Publishing - 21 May 2026)
by Chris Goss. Illustrations by Gareth Hector and colour profiles by Janusz Swiatlon
96 pages - paperback, pdf and ebook
£16.99
$25 US
"An illustrated account of the action-packed combat missions carried out by the Luftwaffe's powerfully armed Junkers Ju 88C day and nightfighters.
The Junkers Ju 88A was the Luftwaffe's most effective medium bomber during much of World War 2, and its high speed and surprising agility made it an ideal candidate for conversion into a Zerstörer (destroyer) fighter. Initially designed to be used as a long-range bomber escort, the solid-nosed Ju 88C fighter boasted powerful cannon that made the aircraft ideally suited to the nightfighter role. Its unrivalled endurance also meant the Ju 88C could undertake sweeps of the Bay of Biscay from the French Atlantic coast in search of Allied maritime patrol aircraft hunting U-boats.
Luftwaffe historian Chris Goss charts the action-packed service history of the Ju 88C through first-hand accounts and combat reports from the crews that flew the twin-engined Zerstörer into combat. Newly commissioned profile artworks and more than 50 photographs of aircraft and crews help detail the aircraft's conversion from a fast bomber into a deadly heavy fighter that proved to be the scourge of Allied bomber and patrol aircraft."
Table of Contents
1. Development
2. Operations in Norway 1940
3. Intruder operations over Britain 1940–41
4. Intruder operations over the Mediterranean 1942–43
5. Nightfighter operations
6. Ju 88C escort operations in the Mediterranean 1942–44
7. Battle of the Bay of Biscay 1942–44
8. 'Train-busting' on the Eastern Front 1942–43
Appendices
Index
The author
"Chris Goss is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer who specialised in the 1939-45 air war over northwest Europe and Luftwaffe air operations. He owns a collection of original wartime material and photographs as a result of interviews with veterans and their families. Chris has written more than 25 books that have been critically acclaimed for their research and been published in Swedish, Hungarian, Spanish and Czech as well as in English."
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