On this day in aviation history, 89 years ago (December 21, 1936), the first flight of the Junkers Ju 88 V1 Prototype took place. The Ju 88 was a twin-engined multirole combat aircraft built by ...

Remains of the Junkers Ju 88 aircraft found in Sicily. Credit: Elio Nicosia / Soprintendenza del Mare In a recent discovery that adds yet another piece to the complex mosaic of World War II in the ...

The Junkers Ju 88 was a twin-engine low-wing multi-role bomber produced by the German Junkers GmbH from the mid thirties. It was one of the pillars of the Luftwaffe. It was, in fact, used as a bomber, ...

On the evening of April 29, 1941, a formation of nine Ju 88s bombers of III/ (Kampf)/Lehrgeschwader 1 took off from Sicily. Their orders were to attack cruisers and destroyers spotted in Malta’s Grand ...

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