By John Weal
This ultimate quantity of the Osprey trilogy at the notorious Luftwaffe dive-bomber charts its fortunes within the hardest theater of all: the jap entrance. The fearsome acceptance that the Stuka had loved within the beginning months of the warfare used to be shattered over the English Channel in the summertime of 1940 yet was once restored within the invasion of the Soviet Union. opposed to a demoralized enemy, the Ju 87 scored a string of mind-blowing successes, destroying infantry, artillery and armor alike and sinking a variety of ships of the Soviet Baltic Fleet. within the a ways north one Stukagruppe targeting bombing the Arctic port of Murmansk and disrupting rail site visitors down into the Russian hinterland. despite the fact that, because the Soviet Union slowly amassed energy, the Stuka devices came across themselves outnumbered, outfought, and relegated to working less than conceal of darkness. the times of the dive-bomber have been eventually over. The Schlacht, or ground-attack, airplane now governed the skies above the battlefields.
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4. 5. Just as fighter pilots kept count of their aerial victories, so Stuka pilots assiduously recorded the number of operational missions they had flown. /StG 77, later photographed on reaching his 300th. ) Dinortstabe projecting from the underwing bombs To prevent the Red Air Force from supporting the Red Army Repeated day and night attacks on the fortress of Sevastopol to break the morale of the defenders Direct air support of 11. Armees assault units during their storming of the outer defences The neutralisation of Soviet artillery by bombing, as well as observation flights to provide fire control for German counterbattery fire Cutting off the Soviet troops in the fortress from supplies by sea and air For five days prior to the actual assault, from 2 to 6 June, the defences of Sevastopol were subjected to an intense 'softening-up' bombardment from both artillery and aircraft.
U I- a.. c:::x: :I: U 36 When the ground assault troops went in at first light on 7 June, StG 77 immediately focused its attentions on the point of attack, bombing and strafing Soviet positions and the fortified villages along the northern sector of the outer defence ring. It would continue to provide direct support for the army storm units slowly battling their way through the labyrinth of forward fortifications, trenches and wire for the best part of a week while, at the same time, also responding to calls to attack such rear-area targets as heavy artillery bunkers, coastal batteries and supply shipping, both in the harbour itself and out at sea.
The city was taken against little resistance on 19 July. By this time the German 17. Armee was rapidly approaching Rostov-on-Don, the natural gateway down into the Caucasus. The city had already been captured once by 1. Panzerarmee back at the beginning of November 1941, but the Soviets had retaken it before that month was out. Now it was about to change hands again. The veterans ofStG 77 played a large part in its fall. Just days earlier, the Geschwader had celebrated its 30,OOOth sortie since the beginning of Barbarossa.