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I know there are plenty of period photos out there, but here are a couple Ju 88 examples I have personally photographed that may be helpful for some of the projects in this group build. The one in London has the complex antenna array on the nose shown from multiple angles and also as much of the bomb bay as I could get (sorry for the poor lighting). The one in Dayton was better lit but had some displays for the Memphis Belle debut put up in front of it. The challenge was getting uncrowded shots during the celebration that brought several thousand visitors to the museum. 

 

Warning: Photo Heavy

 

 

Ju 88 D-1/Trop (Werk Nr. 430650)
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Ju 88 R-1 (Werk Nr. 360043)
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Hope these are of some use

 

 

 

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Time to mention some of my references, and these are not technical but historical ones. I'll skip all I have of the Ju 88:s in Finnish service, and tell about three/four of the more rare German ones - as you know, there weren't many who lived to tell a lot about it! We Finns are lucky because we have a lot of lesser known German memoires translated and printed in Finnish.

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1) Ritterkreuzträger Konrad Knabe, his memoires of being commander of "Fernaufklärungskette Lappland" a.k.a "Dietl's Eyes" and later 1.(F)/124. They started with Do 17 P-1:s and later converted to Ju 88 D:s (and one or two A:s) and Ju 188:s.

2) The book of the lower left, eh, I won't repeat its name or writers here! It's based on another Ritterkreuzträger's, a weather recce unit commander Rudolf Schütze's war diary. It has some unbelievable colour photographs from the Arctic! They flew He 111:s and Ju 88:s. Not a very easy book to read with my self-learned Modelbahn-Deutsch 😆.

3)/4) The memoires of P.W. Stahl are partially translated and published in Finnish. I went further, and bought the German version which I again tackled with my Fleischmann-Deutsch. This man served and survived from the Battle of Britain through Arctic and Mediterranean, with a very cold winter near Moscow in between! He ended the war in KG 200, but that's the story for another book. The Finnish translation lacks the Mediterranean campaign.

V-P

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Please note, that the wheel bay doors has front corners rounded - in 1/72 it is only present in Zvezda kits  and not in Revell! 

Cheers

J-W

 

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Just today got a notice that this book was published. I'm glad to tell you that one copy was within minutes paid for and is already on its way to me. This really hits the nailhead for me! I must go shopping for some A-4 kits next :giggle:

 

"The latest book from the Air Force Museum's publication series, Hannu Valtonen's "Junkersit Jäämerellä" (Junkerses in the Arctic Ocean) book, is now available in our online store! 

1. Staffel (Fern) Aufklärungsgruppe 124, simply 1.(F)/124 for short, was a long-range reconnaissance squadron of the German Air Force. In the early stages of World War II, it first supported the German ground forces in the hostilities against Poland and France. England and especially its shipping was the next target, but now they encountered such strong resistance that the Wehrmacht could not cross the Channel. It brought maritime reconnaissance flights to the squadron. A short phase in British coastal waters, followed by a transfer to Ultima Thule. The word means extreme north, it took 1(F) 124 mainly to Kirkkoniemi, but also to Bardufoss and Kemi. Germany's attack on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 was a redealing of the cards. England and the Soviet Union moved to the same side of the fence and it didn't take long for the USA to follow. Lend and Lease agreements were born and the flow of materials from the west began, e.g. to Murmansk and Arkhangelsk. The main task of 1.(F)/124 was the reconnaissance of shipping convoys in the Arctic Ocean, especially the Barents Sea. They grew large and eventually also well defended, placing ever greater demands on the squadron. The area to be scouted was huge, the squadron's planes went as far as Jan Mayen in the west and Novaya Zemlya in the east. The longest flights were more than ten hours long. The armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union moved 1.(F)/124 into the enemy's camp from a Finnish point of view. A couple of bombs in Ranua, the burning of a cottage in Hyrynsalmi and scaring people by shooting along the streets of Oulu remained at the top of the few anti-Finnish actions.

 

Hannu Valtonen (PhD, lieutenant colonel ret) has completed the chronicle compiled by those who served in the squadron ... not forgetting flight diary excerpts and photographs." Translated by Google

 

 

:yahoo: V-P

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