12.01.2010, 12:18
actually those birds were use by specialized locomotive busting squadrons;
their noses were rather painted that way though to fool russian AA gunners into thinking that they were
firing at a bomber and not at a destroyer, armed with a battery of 7,9mm machine guns;
imagine the surprise when a hail of machine gun fire came the way of unsuspecting Russian AA gunners who thought that they had a brave but silly LW bomber pilot in their sights;
interestingly, later models of JU-88G night fighters had their rudders painted in a way to simulate earlier model
C and R night fighter variants and not the much more heavily armed and better performing G model night fighters;
their noses were rather painted that way though to fool russian AA gunners into thinking that they were
firing at a bomber and not at a destroyer, armed with a battery of 7,9mm machine guns;
imagine the surprise when a hail of machine gun fire came the way of unsuspecting Russian AA gunners who thought that they had a brave but silly LW bomber pilot in their sights;
interestingly, later models of JU-88G night fighters had their rudders painted in a way to simulate earlier model
C and R night fighter variants and not the much more heavily armed and better performing G model night fighters;