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This list covers aircraft of the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War from 1939 to 1945. Numerical designations are largely within the RLM designation system.. The Luftwaffe officially existed from 1933–1945 but training had started in the 1920s, before the Nazi seizure of power, and many aircraft made in the inter-war years were used during World War II.
Dornier Do 13 medium bomber (Development of Do 11), 1933; Dornier Do 14 seaplane (prototype) Dornier Do 15 Wal ('Whale') reconnaissance flying-boat; Dornier Do 17 mail-plane, bomber and night-fighter; Dornier Do 18 reconnaissance bomber flying-boat, 1935; Dornier Do 19 prototype four engine heavy bomber; Dornier Do 22 torpedo bomber ...
The Junkers Ju 87, popularly known as the "Stuka", [b] is a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft.Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935.The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 and served the Axis in World War II from beginning to end (1939–1945).
Also certain postwar planes such as the Bell X-5, F-86 Sabre or the MiG-15 were deemed to have been based on the pioneering work of World War II German aircraft designers. [1] [2] [3] German aircraft manufacturers such as Henschel in Kassel had their archives destroyed in the course of the Allied bombing of the Third Reich at the end of World ...
German Combat Planes: A Comprehensive Survey and History of the Development of German Military Aircraft from 1914 to 1945. New York, US: Doubleday. Weal, John (2000). Ju 88 Kampfgeschwader on the Western Front. Botley, Oxford, UK: Osprey Aviation. ISBN 978-1-84176-020-9. Winchester, Jim (2004). "Junkers Ju 88". Aircraft of World War II. London ...
Before World War II, the Germans saw the potential for aircraft powered by the jet engine constructed by Hans von Ohain in 1936. [15] [16] After the successful test flights of the world's first jet aircraft—the Heinkel He 178—within a week of the invasion of Poland which started the conflict, they adopted the jet engine for an advanced fighter aircraft.
The list of aircraft of World War II includes all of the aircraft used by countries which were at war during World War II from the period between when the country joined the war and the time the country withdrew from it, or when the war ended.
The Messerschmitt Bf 110, often known unofficially as the Me 110, [Note 1] is a twin-engined Zerstörer (destroyer, heavy fighter), fighter-bomber (Jagdbomber or Jabo), and night fighter (Nachtjäger) designed by the German aircraft company Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW) and produced by successor company Messerschmitt.