Junkers Ju 87 Stukageschwader 1937 41

Release on 2012-11-20 | by John Weal

The author also acknowledges that the Stuka crewmembers' accounts quoted in these pages are translations by him from ... Moments after dropping its ordnance the Ju 87 was set upon by a Hurricane I of Fighter Command's No 10 Group and ...

Author: John Weal
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781782007296
Category: History
Page: 98
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Junkers Ju 87 Stukageschwader 1937 41

The Ju 87 Stuka was the most feared weapon in the German arsenal in the first year of World War 2, the Luftwaffe using it to deadly effect during the Blitzkrieg between September 1939 and June 1940. Although vulnerable to the enemy fighters due to its moderate speed in level flight and general lack of manoeuvrability, the Ju 87 nevertheless soon came to symbolise the might of Nazi Germany as the mere handful of Stukageschwader supporting the Wehrmacht rampaging out of the Fatherland took a heavy toll of the Allied forces.