The aircraft which crashed at Blackbrook was a Junkers Ju 88 version A-4 which had a longer wingspan and more powerful engines than earlier models. The A-4 was brought into service in the closing days of the Battle of Britain in the autumn of 1940. It was a highly effective military aircraft. 16,000 of the aircraft were produced.

The Junkers Ju 188 was a German Luftwaffe high-performance medium bomber built during World War II, the planned follow-on to the famed Ju 88 with better performance and payload. It was produced only in limited numbers, due both to the presence of improved versions of the Ju 88, as well as the deteriorating war condition and the resulting focus on fighter production. In 1936, Junkers submitted

Defensive armament comprised two additional 7.92mm MG 15 machine-guns. The Ju 88C-4 was a heavy fighter/reconnaissance model, the Ju 88C-5 an improved heavy fighter, the Ju 88C-6a an improved Ju 88C-5, the Ju 88C-6b and Ju 88C-6c night-fighters, the Ju 88C-7a and Ju 88-C7b intruders, and the Ju 88-C7c, a heavy fighter.
Field modifications improving the cockpit armor and installing heavier armament for the rear defensive machine gun position (single MG 15’s were replaced with a twin MG 81 mount) helped, but the Ju 88 came into its own with the introduction of the A-4 version during the Battle of Britain, which was fitted with more powerful Junkers Jumo 211J The Ju 388 was the final development of the Junkers Ju 88 series to be built. This aircraft was the last of six prototypes. Coded 'PE+IF' it was captured at the armament trials establishment Tarnewitz on the coast of the Baltic Sea and flown to Farnborough in the UK, where it arrived on September 1, 1945. 139K subscribers in the ww2 community. Locked due to reddit protests, until the 14. If you modmail asking for access I'll ban you. Don't be a scab. . 981 236 713 813 223 718 447 709

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