The Spanish Civil War gave Germany a brutal proving ground for the Ju 87 Stuka before the Second World War began. Early dive bombers and attack aircraft were tested against bridges, roads, rail lines, ...
The Ju 87 Stuka is often remembered as an outdated dive bomber vulnerable to modern fighters. But on the Eastern Front, it evolved into a specialized anti-tank aircraft capable of devastating Soviet ...
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 ...
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 ...