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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.
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 ...
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).
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 Messerschmitt Me 264 was a long-range strategic bomber developed during World War II for the German Luftwaffe as its main strategic bomber. The design was later selected as Messerschmitt's competitor in the Reichsluftfahrtministerium ' s (the German Air Ministry) Amerikabomber (America Bomber) programme, for a strategic bomber capable of attacking New York City from bases in France or the ...
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 ...
True identity only becomes clear to the Allies after World War II. [81] He 111 Z-1 Two He 111 airframes coupled together by a new central wing panel possessing a fifth Jumo 211 engine, used as a glider tug for Messerschmitt Me 321. He 111 Z-2 Long-range bomber variant based on Z-1. He 111 Z-3 Long-range reconnaissance variant based on Z-1. CASA ...
List of aircraft of Germany in World War II; List of aircraft of Japan, World War II; List of aircraft of Poland during World War II; List of aircraft of the Red Army Air Forces; List of Regia Aeronautica aircraft used in World War II; List of aircraft of the United Kingdom in World War II; List of aircraft of the United States during World War II