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1 posted on 06/11/2012 1:43:51 PM PDT by greatdefender
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To: SunkenCiv

GGG Ping!


2 posted on 06/11/2012 1:44:43 PM PDT by greatdefender (If You Want Peace.....Prepare For War)
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Amazing these planes are still being found..such as the P-40 found in the Sahara recently.

Hope they all get restored.

3 posted on 06/11/2012 1:46:26 PM PDT by trailhkr1 (All you need to know about Zimmerman, innocent = riots, manslaughter = riots, guilty = riots)
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Should have left it there, I’m not sure that the residents of Rotterdam and Warsaw want to see anymore Stukas in their lifetime.


4 posted on 06/11/2012 1:49:53 PM PDT by dfwgator
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I wonder if the man that was flying it is still there. A Stuka is extremely rare, but it’s also a mans coffin, and tomb. They should leave it there.


5 posted on 06/11/2012 1:52:48 PM PDT by yank in the UK ( A liberal mocking Christianity. I asked "why don't you mock Islam?" he replied "Muslims are violent)
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6 posted on 06/11/2012 1:53:56 PM PDT by Average Al (Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
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To: greatdefender

I always thought the Stuka was a beautiful plane.

I have read that, although an effective dive bomber, it was basically a sitting duck for enemy fighters.


7 posted on 06/11/2012 1:54:12 PM PDT by yarddog
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My father shot one down back in the 40’s. Somewhere in France I think.


9 posted on 06/11/2012 2:04:13 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE ("We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately." - Franklin)
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The Stuka JU-87 dive bomber is without a doubt the most sinister, evil-looking combat aircraft ever made. With it’s gull-wing design and fixed landing-gear looking like talons it so much resembles some nightmarish mechanical bird of prey. It looks like it wants to kill you.


17 posted on 06/11/2012 2:43:18 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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Those sirens on the Stuka were called the “Trumpets of Jericho”... The later versions of the Stuka that fought the Russians, didn’t have the sirens. They were for psychological warfare only.


43 posted on 06/12/2012 6:57:41 AM PDT by jag.drafting
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