May 2015 FLYPAST 59HARBINGERS
OF THE BLITZKRIEG
MORE THAN ANY OTHER WARPLANE,
THE STUKA WAS SYMBOLIC OF GERMANY’S
LIGHTNING WAR. CHRIS GOSS CLOSES THIS
SPECIAL SECTION WITH A PORTFOLIO OF
BENT-WING DIVE-BOMBERS
Above
A Stuka of IV/LG 1 in a well-prepared revetment.Below
A force-landed Stuka of I/StG 1, coded ‘A5+K’ with
the last letter unreadable. It is possibly an ‘L’, which
would indicate it belonged to 3 Staffel.View from a Stuka of an attack on Serches, near
Soissons, France, in May 1940.View from a Stuka of an attack on Serches, near
Soissons, France, in May 1940.Soissons, France, in May 1940.Below
A view of the smoke
above the beaches at
Dunkirk from a Stuka of
IV (Stuka)/LG 1, May-June- Special units to
operationally evaluate
tactics where known as
Lehrgeschwader - LG
- these often operated
more than one type.
Three Staffel made a
Gruppe and Gruppen
were denoted by Roman
numerals. Thus IV (Stuka)/
LG 1 was: 4th Gruppen,
Stuka component,
Lehrgeschwader 1.
An unidentifi ed Stuka, having force-landed during
the Battle of France.58-59_Blitzkrieg_fp.indd 59 13/03/2015 11:10