PROFILE # 148

THE JUNKERS Ju 88 NIGHT FIGHTERS

(ALFRED PRICE)

This series was started back in the early 1960s and takes the form of a small format, soft cover booklet with 12 or more pages.  Illustrations are generally black & white photographs (though some later ones had some colour) with two or more pages of colour profiles.  In addition summaries of aircraft specification, performance and armament are detailed.  Many of these booklets can still be a useful reference tool and are highly sought after little books are an invaluable resource for aviation historians, modellers and collectors alike.

Contents:

          Single-page of Camouflage Illustrations and insignia of 5 examples: Ju 88C-2 of 1^st Staffel Nachtjagdgeschwader 2 – Holland Spring 1941, Ju 88C-6c of 4^th Staffel Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 – Belgium March 1944, Ju 88C-6b of 3^rd Staffel Nachtjagdgeschwader 4 – Germany March 1944, JU 88G-6c of Staff Flight II Gruppe Staffel Nachtjagdgeschwader 100 – Eastern Front late 1944, Ju 88G-7a of Nachtjagdgstaffel Norwegen – Norway March 1945

Night Fighter Development

          The Advent of Radar

          RAF Assessment

          New Armament and Radar

          Double-page 5-view Camouflage Illustrations of Junkers Ju 88G-1, 7^th Staffel Nachtjagdgeschwader 2 which landed in error at Woodbridge, Essex UK on 13^th July 1944

          The Fighting Prince

          The JU 88G appears

          Construction

          Specifications

          Notes on German Night Fighter colour scheme

Pages:  16  (23.5cm x 17.5cm)

Condition:  Good, staples heavily rusted but sound and continuing to hold all pages securely.  Front cover page exhibits light age-related marking (see photograph) and evident rubbing to the spine.  Very light ink staining on back cover page typically from the front page of copy stored below it; common on these early publications where the pink / red ink from the front cover page wasn’t 100% sealed. 

Publication:  1967