German Air Force

Victim of the Hurricane night fighters

Imperial War Museum

RAF officers inspect the wreckage of a German bomber Junkers Ju 88 lying in the waters of the Suez Canal after being shot down by an RAF night fighter, likely the No. 30 Squadron’s Hurricane, near Kantara on the night of 9/10 September 1941. The Ju 88, note the swastika obscured for night missions, is likely one of the Luftwaffe’s bomber unit based at Crete or in Libya. Victor Sierra