The Sad Story of the Stuka Dive Bomber
The Stuka’s reputation did not survive the war it helped kick-off as it proved less and less survivable in the face of capable opposition.
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Perhaps no weapon was as closely associated with the Nazi German in early in World War II as the Stuka dive bomber, infamous for howling, near-vertical dive attacks on warships, battlefield targets and defenseless civilian communities like merciless birds of prey.
However, the Stuka’s reputation did not survive the war it helped kick-off as it proved less and less survivable in the face of capable opposition.