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Just finished this one in time for the anniversary. I had never painted the Eder attack before so it was nice to try something different. The basics are that it shows Henry Maudslay’s crew diving past Waldeck Castle during the very difficult approach to attack the Eder, which can be seen in the distance. They were one of the eight crews that failed to return, shot down by anti-aircraft fire on the way home.

Mark P

Looks like Ken Wilkinson second left with his trademark mop of white hair!

OK, here’s my final attempt to prove it’s an ’88!

The photo shows the ‘mystery’ aircraft alongside a Ju88 in a similar attitude.

The main identifying points are the very large tailplane (longer than the height of the tail, (Blenheim was about the same), and the curve of the engine nacelles at the rear. The ‘turret’ is a mark on the negative. The cockpit is higher than the fuselage but because of the rear light source most of it blends in with the sky.

I still think it’s an ’88 not a 188, have a look at this photo in our library of a C-6 doing a very similar low level pass…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ww2images/6897167661/

I think the more curved shape of the 88 tail is lost by the over-exposure.

I think it’s a Ju88 with a mark on the photo which gives the appearance of a mid upper turret…

…apart from Bottesford…!

I think the thing to do would be to go through the crews lost on the 25th/26th February raid to Augsburg and see if any did their first tour on 106 Sqn. (Some crews even changed squadrons in mid-tour.) That would probably solve the riddle.

The phantom Z behind the main ZN code is formed by one of the fuselage windows and probably a scratch!

The addition of a 2 (or squared) after an id letter was introduced when squadrons started to exceed 26 aircraft and used up the entire alphabet. You’d therefore have ‘P Squared’ not replacing ‘P’ Peter but flying at the same time.

MP

Lovely to see them but don’t know if you’d ever catch me in the gunners position, standing up in the FE.2.

I was lucky enough to fly in the Fee’s gunner’s position a couple of years ago and can confirm that at no point did I ever feel the slightest urge to stand up and wave the gun around, even when we were joined by the Pfalz! Clinging on bravely to the seatless floor was my choice and I stuck to it…