Ju 87 Stuka was an important bomber of Germany in WWI and II. It caused a great damage to Poland in 1939, the beginning of WWII, with its horrible noise and terrifying accuracy. Nonetheless, the situation of the war had turned against it when fighting Soviet Union in the East.
There is also a cool video about JU-88A-4 in this website. It was the most important bomber of Germans in WWII. It talks about its advantage and disadvantage, too. Its maximum speed is 295 mph. It doesn't have enough payload and defense armament. When the pilot changed to use the machine guns, the stuka was shot by its enimies. It says that this stuka wasn't good at fighting the east part of Soviet Union, because of the terrain of mountains brought it inferiority. Therefore, it can only be rated as the 8th dive-bombers.
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Here's a website I found about the blitzkrieg:
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/blitzkrieg.htm
After Hitler defeated Poland in 1939 and Norway in April 1940, France thought that they were safe behind Maginot Line. It was able to defend another world war. In May 1940, Germany began the blitzkrieg against the Netherlands and Belgium. Their defending troops kept retreating and retreating, and lots of civilians fled from the front of the attack in haste. The bombers of German were filled in the sky, striking the retreating troops and escaping civilians with machine gun and bomb. Thousands and thousands of people died then. Then, the German invaded France and reached the English Channel. Nonetheless, German stopped there and went to north to secure the coastal ports and destroy the trapped armies. During the two days, British prepared and was ready to defend the German's attack, though Britain was the rest of its allies.
We can see how bold Hiter was that he dared to resist the military doctrine. Germany even planed to cut the resource of iron ore of Sweden, we can see how far Hiter looked forward. Hitler attacked Poland, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium and France, and he even planned to invade Sweden and British later. We can see how huge the ambition Hitler possessed. He did a lot of amazing things.
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Pic 1 The first Junkers Ju 87 Stukas flew in 1935.
Pic 2 German panzer troops reachthe French coast, June 10, 1940
1 comment:
Good work blogging, but tyoe less and find more sites--like Shelly! The sites you do find are good and your reports are well-written, and it seems you're learning, but more sources of information is better, especially when dealing with the internet.
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