Junkers
Ju88G-6
History For This Aircraft
GR JU88G-6 Nacht
The G-6 was, together with the G-1 and C-6, the major contributor to the German night fighter force in the last year of WWII. The Ju 88B was developed as an improved bomber with better crew facilities, this variant soon was given the designation Ju 188E, and the idea was to replace the Ju 88C with a night fighter based on the 188E. This Hubertus Program eventually emerged as the Ju 388J in 1944, but in parallel the Ju 88G had been developed from a Ju 88R with the tail from a 188 and it flew for the first time in 1943 and with some minor changes the Ju 88G-1 started replacing the C in the beginning of 1944. The G-1 was powered by the BMW801G but soon the G-6 with Jumo 213E was introduced as the and became the most numerous G-variant.
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