The Junkers Ju 87, known as the Stuka, was one of World War II’s most feared dive bombers. Introduced by the German Luftwaffe ...

These are some highlights and crashes using the Ju-87 Stuka, the most recognizable and widely used dive bomber of World War II.

And they were supported by ground-attack aircraft, notably the Stuka dive bomber, that commanders on the ground could summon quickly on their radios.

Perhaps one of the most feared and well-known aircraft of World War II was the Junkers Ju 87 “Stuka” dive bomber. Early model Ju 87s were used in the Spanish Civil War with good results.

Five years before Valkyrie, as World War II began, the Luftwaffe conscripted Melitta to work on the Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber.

Photo: www.asisbiz.com The Junkers Ju 87 is most commonly known as the Stuka, which is derived from the German word sturzkampfflugzeug, meaning dive-bomber.

From its first combat deployment during the Spanish Civil War in 1937 to its final operations at the close of World War II in 1945, the Junkers JU 87 Stuka dive-bomber was a symbol of German aerial ...

Compared with the commandos he guided on truck and jeep convoys — volunteer daredevils who crept onto Nazi airfields; attached time bombs to Messerschmitt fighters, Stuka dive bombers, fuel ...

While it's the very thing that made Stukas a legendary WWII plane and much better than all other diver bombers at the time, other innovations helped. The "Stuka-vizier," also allowed pilots to ...

The Stuka was a specialized weapon, designed for use in aggressive actions of the kind that German forces excelled at, in the early campaigns of WWII. Unlike conventional "horizontal" bombers ...

If the standard P-51 was the Allied answer to the Bf-109 and the Fw-190, then its dive bomber cousin was a similar match for German dive bombers like the Ju-87 Stuka.

The terrifying German WW2 "Stuka" (Junkers Ju 87 Sturzkampfflugzeug) dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft became a powerful propaganda symbol of German air power during the 1939-1942 Blitzkrieg ...