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Re: JU-88 C-6 without gondola
Hello Falcon04;
I have looked at the photo and it indeed is ´D-1 / C-6´ version (no airbrakes). Code of this one appears as +KN or +KR (unit code not is not visible).
There are known a few ´specials´ such as the ´C-6 like´ machine coded F1+KR and used in the Mediterranean - was it perhaps C-6 15740 ? (see loss report below) but the number on the tail is six digits (possibly 360xxx but too early for the 720xxx or 750xxx ranges), but it could be an rebuilt A-4 nevertheless. The loss below is the only one known by II/KG 76 - others belonging to Stab or III/Gruppen.
15740 Ju 88 C-6´ II/KG 76 (Luftflotte 2)
OPS (F) engine failures (100%) north of Rom 21.10.1943 (F Uffz. Alfred Bernecke killed, BF Uffz. Walter Leeger inj/rep allright in LWFLV losses x/31.01.44) (rep as ´A4 3740´ in LWFLV losses 36v06.11.43; amd 15740 in qu/13.11.43 !!!!)
( ~ Not 5740 as that was already destroyed in Rumanian service earlier that month; both 1570 and 1574 known lost before - Number not found in any Ju 88 W.Nr. range)
Last edited by edNorth; 22nd August 2007 at 23:17.
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