1/48 Ju 88C-6 WWII German Heavy Fighter

  In the beginning of the 1930s the idea of a high-speed bomber that could outstrip contemporary fighters was born. One of the objectifications of this conception became the twin-engine bomber Ju88 designed by Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG, a major German aircraft and aircraft engine manufacturer. Since the spring of 1941 it produced Ju88A-4 planes with liquid-cooled Jumo 211J engines of increased power and more powerful armament. Ju 88C-6 was the 1942 fighter version of A-4 and differed by setting one MG FF cannon with three MG 17 machines guns in the opaque nose and two MG FFin the ventral gondola. These aircraft were used as heavy fighters over the Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea, and also in the Eastern front in 1942 through 1943.