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," ...
As the famous Stuka dive-bomber faded from its original role, it found a brutal new purpose on the Eastern Front. Modified ...
Before becoming a symbol of Blitzkrieg, the Ju 87 was tested in combat during the Spanish Civil War. German crews used the conflict to refine dive-bombing tactics, evaluate accuracy, and expose design ...
Berlin, Jun 15: 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 ...
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The Stuka airplane soaring over the Transportation Gallery at the Museum of Science and Industry has been grounded, at least for a few more days. It has been lowered to the floor by its cables and is ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tanks wrought massive carnage in the Second World War, and stopping these tracked monsters from the air was a tough task. It demanded flying low, avoiding or surviving getting shot, and having a big ...