"Robert Sveinson" wrote in message
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"Dingo" wrote in message
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Just posting this as I think it may be of interest to some of you good
folks.

Apologies for posting this way, I'm still trying to get my head around my
newish PC and its assorted programs.

This clipping, which is from the UK's Sunday Express newspaper dated
28.4.74., I found inside a book that had been "lost" for more years than
I
can recall.

So now we know, the Ju 88 was really a WW1 a/c vbg
~~
Dingo ;~)


"British knowledge of German airborne interception radar was greatly
enhanced when, literally out of the blue, a Lichtenstein-equipped Ju 88R-1
D5+EV, landed at the RAF station at Dyce, Aberdeen. The pilot was
Oberleutnant Heinrich Schmitt, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War and the
Battle of Britain, the radar operator Oberfeldwebel Paul Rosenberger, and
the
flight mechanic Oberfeldwebel Erich Kantwill, and they had planned their
flight to the British Isles and their defection very carefully. Members of
10./NJG 3 stationed at Grove in Denmark, they had been temporarily
detached
to the airfield at Kristiansund on the southern coast of Norway in
response
to
a requirement voiced by Hitler that the nightly RAF courier flight between
Stockholm and London should be intercepted and shot down. At about 15:30
hrs. on 9 May 1943 the Ju 88 took off, ostensibly for a routine airtest,
and
shortly afterwards the radio operator, in accordance with their plan,
transmitted
an SOS message to the effect that there was an engine on fire and they
were
ditching in the sea. Air-sea rescue machines sent off in response to the
distress
call found floating rubber dinghies, but understandably no sigh of the
aircraft
itself."

From: The Other Battle Luftwaffe Night Aces Versus Bomber Command
By: Peter Hinchliffe


Thanks, Robert, for the extra detail. I'll have to try and find some time to
do a bit of digging on this subject in respect to the a/c's crew.

There is reference to this incident at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_88

Cheers,
Dingo ;-)