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...German navy lieutenant safely ejected after his engine failed near Cologne. The noncombat loss of so many planes compares in military aviation only with the Luftwaffe's own horrendous record in the late 1930s, when it lost 572 aircraft in 1938 alone, including the mass crash of 31 Stuka dive bombers that blindly followed a flight leader through the clouds and smack into the ground...
...demonstrated by Caesar and his legions, by Genghis Khan, by Stonewall Jackson in his valley campaign." Similarly, Lieut. General Dwight Beach, chief of Army Research and Development, rates the experiment as significant as "the introduction of the first tank and chemical warfare in World War I or the Panzer-Stuka team used by the Germans in World...
...World War II dramas. Battling from the outset against impending doom-for after all, Germany lost the war-their heroes always turn against the villainous Gestapo or otherwise show that, deep down inside, their hearts belong to the Hitler Resistance, before riding off in tank, sub or Stuka to their Valhalla...
...Knoke made an idol of his plane, a Messerschmitt 109 which he called Good Emil. He was so scared and excited on his first mission, a strafing run over the Thames estuary, that he forgot to fire at the target. But he soon tasted blood in Russia, flying alongside Stuka bombers as they chopped up Soviet columns. He was vastly enjoying the war when They-the anonymous, know-nothing They which is GHQ to every operational airman-shipped him back to Germany to patrol the North Sea. There Knoke learned that boredom is the first reality of war. He flew...
...Stuttgart's smoky beer hall, Panzerknacker Rudel seemed to feel that he was back in the Stuka dive bomber with the European Army (EDC) as his target for the night. "We cannot join these Western schemes," he shouted. "[They would mean] the immolation of the German people . . ." Added General Adolf Wolf: "America wants to use us as additional horses . . ." Anyone who cooperates with such designs, said Wolf, "will expose himself . . . as a man without honor or comradeship...