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7 unusual facts about Junkers Ju 88


Belgooly

On 26 August 1941 a Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88 crashed close to Belgooly, after being shot down by 615 Squadron of the RAF.

Belleville washer

The World War II-vintage German Junkers Ju 88 aircraft's single strut main gear made primary use of belleville washers as its main shock absorption mechanism.

Bombings of Heilbronn in World War II

Two anti-aircraft positions at the Neckar and 14 German Junkers Ju 88 night fighters fought against the British bombers.

Heimkehle

From 1944 the Nazis turned the cave into a bombproof production site for the Dessau Junkers Factory, who had parts for the Ju 88 and other products manufactured here.

Lotfernrohr 7

In most installations, like those in the Junkers Ju 88 or Heinkel He 111, the tube ended in a fairing under the fuselage with a protruding flat window in front.

MG 81 machine gun

Another application was the "Watering can", an externally mounted pod with 3 sets of guns and ammo meant to be attached to a Junkers Ju 88 and used to strafe ground targets.

Napier of Magdala Battery

These never fired a shot in anger, though in 1945 they almost fired upon an Iberia Airlines Junkers Ju 88 that had wandered into Gibraltar's airspace while on a flight from Málaga to Tetouan.


Convoy HX 65

Six ships were sunk by the U-boats, and two more were sunk by four Heinkel He 115 and eight Junkers Ju 88 bombers of Küstenfliegergruppe 506 based at Stavanger Airport, Sola.

Nachtjagdgruppe 10

2. Staffel was stationed in both Werneuchen and Finow flying Messerschmitt Bf 110 and Junkers Ju 88 aircraft.

Raymond Harries

In February 1942 he joined No. 131 Squadron RAF, based at Llanbedr as a flight commander, and claimed his first kill, a Junkers Ju 88, soon after.


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