Well done Sir. I had a Ju87 machine gun ammo tray cover last year – so was able to identify this part from what I recalled.

The RLM70 paint and Junkers gold anodising are also clues.

It doesn’t help that the machine at Hendon doesn’t have these guns.

Ju87 Left wing MG 17 cover.

The links for the aircraft details are:

http://www.luftwaffe.no/SIG/Losses/tap412.html

http://www.geocities.ws/hjunkers/ju_g60pl.htm#g87pl

Although no mention of 8701 is made – the adjacent werknummers were also in the same geschwader. So I assume it was damaged and used for spares.

Squadron was at Kirkennes in Norway attacking Murmansk at the time of the loss.