Ju 87 Stuka

摘要

This aircraft: Ju 87B-2 Stuka as it appeared in late summer 1941, when assigned to 2/St.G. 2 during Operation Barbarossa—the German invasion of the Soviet Union. No aircraft better combined psychological and physical effect than the sinister-looking Junkers Ju 87 Stuka of World War II, an airplane that wreaked havoc whenever and wherever the Luftwaffe had air superiority. The inverted-gull wing dive-bomber was key to the success of German ground campaigns in Poland, Norway, and France. It was also critical in the early stages of the Nazi campaigns in North Africa and, especially, the Soviet Union.