Junkers Ju 87 Stuka

Junkers Ju 87 Stuka. After some early technical setbacks, including a fatal crash during. The Junkers Ju 87 Stuka (derived from Sturzkampfflugzeug, "dive bomber"), was a two-man German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft that served with the Luftwaffe during the Second World War


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One of the deadliest and most effective airplanes of the Axis powers, the Junkers Ju-87 Stuka, owed its origin to a fearless World War I ace and, ironically, to innovative American aviation visionaries in the peaceful early 1930s. The legendary reputation that it acquired during the Polish and French campaigns lent credence to claims for its.

While only two examples survived the war intact (the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry's R-2/Trop and the RAF Museum Hendon's G-2), a few more Stuka wrecks are now on display in Germany and Greece.. After shooting down 62 planes, ranking second only to the famous "Red Baron," Manfred von Richthofen, and surviving the 1914-1918 war. Production of the Ju 87 ended by the summer of 1938

Junkers Ju 87 Stuka Dive Bomber Eddie J Creek. After shooting down 62 planes, ranking second only to the famous "Red Baron," Manfred von Richthofen, and surviving the 1914-1918 war. Despite being one of the most infamous dive bombers of World War II, the Junkers Ju 87 Stuka is now one of the rarest aircraft of that era

AVIÕES MILITARES Junkers Ju 87 Stuka. Stuka, a low-wing, single-engine monoplane—especially the Junkers JU 87 dive-bomber—used by the German Luftwaffe from 1937 to 1945, with especially telling effect during the first half of World War II.The Stuka was designed to employ the dive-bombing technique developed earlier by the U.S Production of the Ju 87 ended by the summer of 1938