It was easy to fly with high speed and a 2,300-mile range; similar aircraft were America’s B-25 Mitchell or Germany’s JU 88. Nicknamed “Betty” by the Allies, it achieved the former without ...

The Ju 88 packed a payload of up to 1,400 kgs (3,100 ... thus constituting a 15.3 percent chunk of the 1,977 total Luftwaffe aircraft losses for Herman Goering’s ultimately doomed campaign.