WWII Aviation: German Dive Bombers & Combat Aircraft of WWII

The vision of the menacing, gull-winged Stuka dive bomber, plunging vertically earthwards, its sirens wailing like banshees before releasing its bomb load, became the very embodiment of the terror created by the new form of "Blitzkrieg" warfare unleashed by the Wehrmacht in 1939. Designed to assist ground operations, the Stuka was always to be found operating on the front lines as "flying artillery."