It was the most terrifying sound of the Blitzkrieg: the screaming siren of a Junkers Ju-87 Stuka diving from the sky. In an ...

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 ...

Widely known simply as the “Stuka,” from the German word for dive bomber (“ Sturzkampfflugzeug “), the Ju-87 was one of the first aircraft to be designed specifically with such tactics in mind. The ...

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 ...

One of the Nazi's most emblematic pieces of military ordnance, and perhaps the most feared plane of World War II, was the "Screaming Bird of Prey" — the Junkers Ju-87. It's better known as a "Stuka," ...

Pride of the U. S. Army Air Corps is its secret bombsight, which is accurate for level-flight bombing at altitudes as high as 18,000 feet. Pride of the German Luftwaffe, apparently lacking an ...

NASM copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. The Junkers 87 Stuka was an iconic weapon of World War Two and an aircraft name that was, and still is, instantly recognised ...