As Soviet warplanes became more numerous in the contested skies over the USSR, Stuka losses mounted. By 1943, the Ju 87 was obsolete. The plane that had been the cutting-edge of the war just four ...

During the Second World War, the skies of Europe were transformed ... Of all such planes, it is perhaps the Junker Ju 87 that deserves the title as the most incredibly terrifying to pilot.

The Stuka was as much a psychological warfare weapon as it was an actual weapon of war. Germany first deployed the Ju 87 to the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), the proving ground for the armies that ...