Us Official Photographs

JU-88 over Germany

Destruction of a JU-88. This German plane is pictured in the process of being shot down by an American fighter pilot over Germany in the Dummer Lake area. The Nazi craft had not long taken off when the American closed in. Firing from 200 yards to point blank, the attacker got hits all over the enemy plane. (Top) Coming in on the tail of the victim. (Center) The right engine catches fire. (Bottom) Smoking, the 88 starts to go down. The plane was seen to explode in a field. These are still pictures from the motion picture record made by the gun camera mounted in all fighter planes.