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Re your search on Davidson, I have been researching a JU88 (3Z+DB of Stab. II./KG77) which was shot down by Davidson on 27th September 1940. In my search for details on him, I found out that Davidson was not actually KIA as we would expect, he died on 6th October 1942 at RAF Calveley, Cheshire...

As I understand it, there are two escape hatches on a JU88 A-5; the gunner’s gondola can be jettisoned or the rear of the cockpit canopy can also be jettisoned. I have seen a number of photos of the cockpit being missing on JU88s which have belly landed, but am interested in how the crew would...