Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Fighter Command Pilot Officer J Allen (right) and Flight Sergeant W Patterson, a No 96 Squadron Mosquito crew based at West Malling, survey the wreckage of the Ju 88 which they shot down near Cranbrook in Kent on the night of 18-19 April 1944. The Junkers was one of eight enemy bombers destroyed by RAF night-fighters that night, during the last Operation Steinbock raid on London. The Ju 88A-4 belonged to 6 staffel KG 6 (Kampfgeschwader 6). The machine was code 3E+BP Werknummer 2537. Unteroffizier Helmut Barbauer and Unteroffizier Friedrich Schork were taken prisoner.
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Fighter Command Pilot Officer J Allen (right) and Flight Sergeant W Patterson, a No 96 Squadron Mosquito crew based at West Malling, survey the wreckage of the Ju 88 which they shot down near Cranbrook in Kent on the night of 18-19 April 1944. The Junkers was one of eight enemy bombers destroyed by RAF night-fighters that night, during the last Operation Steinbock raid on London. The Ju 88A-4 belonged to 6 staffel KG 6 (Kampfgeschwader 6). The machine was code 3E+BP Werknummer 2537. Unteroffizier Helmut Barbauer and Unteroffizier Friedrich Schork were taken prisoner. Hugo Muhlbauer and Fritz Gotze were killed (see Ron McKay, Operation Steinbock.
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