Undercarriage failure of a Junkers Ju 88C-6 night fighter of 1./NJG2 at Catania airfield, Sicily, 1941. On January 1942 the order of battles of German Air Forces on Mediterranean Theater record the 1./NJG2 (NJG for Nachtjagdgeschwader/Night Fighter Squadron) and the 4./NJG2 at Catania respectively with a force of a dozen and five Ju 88C-6s. At this time the NJG2 were part of Luftflotte 2, II II Fliegerkorps. One of pilots of this unit was the ace Heinz Rökker, Staffelkapitän of 1./NJG 2 on 15 December 1942, 64 victories, six of them achieved during the deployment in Sicily and Mediterranean: 

Undercarriage failure in Sicily

Mechanics working to lift, making use of a block and tackle, a Junkers Ju 88C-1 of the I Gruppe of the Nachtjagdgeschwader 2 (I./NJG2) which has experienced a crash landing on El Quasaba, Libya, August 1942, likely for right undercarriage failure. The NJG 2 was a Luftwaffe’s night fighter squadron moved in Mediterranean Theatre on November 1941 when its Gruppen 2 and 4 (2./NJG2 and 4./NJG2) was transferred to Catania, Sicily, and afterwards to Beghazi, Libya. The first “kill” was claimed on 13 December when Obfw Hermann Sommer downing a Bristol Beaufighter, South Crete. The other NJG2’s Gruppe moved in MTO was the 1 Gruppe, 1./NJG2, the unit of this photo’s plane, which assured night cover from many Libyan bases: Benina, Barce, Derna, Benghazi, El Quasaba and from Crete. Victor Sierra