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Heinkel He 111 vs Junkers Ju 88: Which was the Best Nazi Bomber?
Nazi Germany was thankfully on the losing end of the ledger during World War II, and as such, the Luftwaffe’s bombers didn’t ...
The Junkers JU-87, better known by its nickname "Stuka," was one of World War II's most iconic combat aircraft. Its distinctive inverted "gull" wings and fixed undercarriage make it unmistakable, and ...
One of the Nazi's most emblematic pieces of military ordnance, and perhaps the most feared plane of World War II, was the "Screaming Bird of Prey" — the Junkers Ju-87. It's better known as a "Stuka," ...
Widely known simply as the “Stuka,” from the German word for dive bomber (“ Sturzkampfflugzeug “), the Ju-87 was one of the first aircraft to be designed specifically with such tactics in mind. The ...
Remains of the Junkers Ju 88 aircraft found in Sicily. Credit: Elio Nicosia / Soprintendenza del Mare In a recent discovery that adds yet another piece to the complex mosaic of World War II in the ...
A Junkers Ju-87 begins to roll in on a target in the Balkans during the invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941. The "little bomber" was considered outdated before WWII even began, but it wound up ...
In the opening days of the Blitzkrieg campaign, few aircraft could invoke as much terror as the Junkers Ju 87. Nicknamed the "Stuka" (an abbreviation of ...
BERLIN – It looked like a Stuka, partly buried in the muck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, but researchers now say the wreck German military divers have been recovering for the past week is a totally ...
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The He 111 made its maiden flight on February 24, 1935, and entered into the official operational service of “die Vaterland” later that year. The Heinkel wielded a payload of 4,400 lbs. of bombs in ...
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