It was the most terrifying sound of the Blitzkrieg: the screaming siren of a Junkers Ju-87 Stuka diving from the sky. In an age before smart bombs, how did these pilots hit their targets with such ...
In December 2023, the American Heritage Museum (AHM) stunned the vintage aviation community with the announcement of its acquisition of an exceedingly rare Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber-one of only ...
Pride of the U. S. Army Air Corps is its secret bombsight, which is accurate for level-flight bombing at altitudes as high as 18,000 feet. Pride of the German Luftwaffe, apparently lacking an ...
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 ...
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," ...
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 ...