Perhaps no weapon was as closely associated with the Nazi German in early in World War II as the Stuka dive bomber, infamous for howling, near-vertical dive attacks on warships, battlefield targets ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: A little more than ten months later, Germany’s ruin was complete. It is certain that the tragedy of the He-177 was one of the factors which had contributed to its ...

Big surprise to most of the world in the Nazi drive through the Lowlands and northern France was the terrible accuracy of German dive bombers. Except for the U. S. Naval Air Service (which originated ...

The Heinkel He 177 heavy bomber was doomed from the very start. Conceptual problems and incompatible design elements gave it a terrible reputation. It was often named the "Luftwaffenfeuerzeug XX," or ...

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," ...

Hans-Ulrich Rudel was the most decorated German serviceman of the second World War and the most famous Ju-87 Stuka pilot in history. He was an expert dive bomber and also was one of the first to use ...

Translation of: Stukas, Jagdbomber, Schlachtflieger. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!411748~!0#focus ...