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 The "little bomber" was considered outdated before WWII even began, but it wound up ...
The Stuka was as much a psychological warfare weapon as it was an actual weapon of war. Before hostilities fully commenced, the decade preceding the outbreak of the Second World War, saw a flowering ...
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 ...
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 ...