Operation Steinbock
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Operation Steinbock or Operation Capricorn, sometimes called the Baby Blitz or Little Blitz, was a strategic bombing campaign by the German Air Force during the Second World War. It comprised attacks
Air Marshal Sir Roderic Hill inspects the wreckage of a Junkers Ju 188 E-1 belonging to 2. Staffel Kampfgeschwader 6 (Bomber Wing 6) which crashed in Shopland, Essex, 21 March 1944.
Göring with Hitler and Albert Speer, 10 August 1943. Göring favoured the bomber over the fighter even at this time.
The Ju 88 was still the mainstay of the German bomber force in 1944
The Do 217 was also available in numbers for Steinbock
Junkers Ju 188
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The Junkers Ju 188 "Rächer" was a German Luftwaffe high-performance medium bomber built during World War II, the planned follow-up to the Ju 88 with better performance and payload. More than 1,000 air
Operation Steinbock
…Blitz, the Luftwaffe still possessed a mix of first-generation medium bomber designs like the Junkers Ju 88. The Junkers design was upgraded and the Junkers Ju 188 was derived from it and was available in 1943. The other main medium bomber was Dornier Do 217, a larger and upgraded version of the Dornier Do 17 light…
Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1989 039 18A, Flugzeug Junkers Ju 188
A Ju 188A-3 of Kampfgeschwader 6 being loaded with bombs. Western Europe, 1944 – note differing radiator core layout compared to that on the Ju 88A
A view of the port side of the same machine, with Hohentwiel UHF radar aerials