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Re: Junkers Ju 88, Vol. 3. Day and Nightfighters. Development - Equipment - Operations 1940 - 1945.
Another gem, Peter. Thank you.
I think it is safe to say then that one of these two cases applied to this aircraft:
either Musterflugzeug 0123 (like 0096) was never counted as part of the procurement order for twenty C-1s (because these were both covered by LC development orders and not by any LE standard procurement order)
OR
0123 was subsequently counted as one of the 20 deliveries reported in the Meldeliste but not until it was released following completion of the trials at Rechlin and Tarnewitz. That must have been in April 1940 since after that there is a one month break with no Ju 88 C deliveries recorded in May 1940.
One other takeaway from this is that these C-1s were being accepted as deliveries even before the Musterflugzeug had been successfully put through its paces at Rechlin and Tarnewitz.
That the preceding example, 0122, was the first recorded C-1 delivery to the LE still meets the other evidence that the identities of the first ten C-1s were all bunched closely together. (The Jan-40 Meldeliste notes "f. Umbau als Zerstörer sind ausserd. 10 fertiggestellt"
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