[max_thehitman]

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;

Yes, you are correct.
But here is something I found out while reading about this airplane. Those black-painted rudders were also to
simulate the look of a Mosquito ( looking at the airplane in a side-view-profile). At a very long distance in the night
with only the moonlight striking on the Ju-88 the allied airplanes might think it was a "Mosquito" and left it alone flying nearby. When they least expected ... they attacked the Allied airplane.
Now that is interesting combat tactics. Those Luftwaffe guys were very sneeaky :twisted: