[falcon04]

edNorth - Appreciate the prompt reply.

Looking at the original high-resolution scan, what appears to be an Italian aircraft - S.79 is my guess - is visible just at the 2 O'Clock position relative to the left wheel of the subject. All you can make out is the broad white fuselage band in the attached pic. - in the original scan the shape of the fuselage and position of the band are totally consistant with this.

Since the subject aircraft also has a white band, this would support a Mediterranean location.

This of course begs the upper-surface camouflage question - a dark green over 65 or 76 or even 79 ???

Also, KG 76 is strictly the photo caption - who knows if that is the unit.

I would guess a C-6 rather than a D-1 - much easier to remove the gondola from a C-6 than to add a gun nose to a D-1 - but who knows.

I have another "gondo-less" Ju-88 which I'm researching - a D-5 shot down over Iceland with which I'm sure you are familiar - but I'll start another thread for that one.

( as an aside, could you possibly select another type face for your posts - I have a very hard time reading the type you've selected ! )