The gull-winged Stuka carried a wind-driven siren, the 'Jericho Trumpet', that turned its dive into a deliberate terror weapon against troops and refugee columns from Poland through Crete and Stalingrad. As Soviet fighter strength grew it became increasingly vulnerable, but flown by specialists like Hans-Ulrich Rudel it remained a lethal ground-attack aircraft against Soviet armour to the end of the war.
Three German Junkers Ju 87D dive bombers, Stuka, over Yugoslavia, in October 1943. SG 3 (Fighter-Bomber Wing 3) operated in the Mediterranean region at that time.PK-Kriegsberichter Karnerth · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · sourceFor documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. German Stuka dive bombers over the Eastern Front, World WarRichard Opitz · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · sourceFor documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Luftsieg in Polen, Eine Staffel Stukas = Ju 87 = fliegt gegHoffmann, Heinrich · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · source
