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This final volume of the Osprey trilogy on the infamous Luftwaffe divebombercharts its fortunes in the toughest theater of all the Eastern Front. Thefearsome reputation that the Stuka had enjoyed in the opening months of the warwas shattered over the English Channel in the summer of 1940 but was restoredin the invasion of the Soviet Union. Against a demoralized enemy the Ju 87scored a string of spectacular successes destroying infantry artillery andarmor alike and sinking numerous ships of the Soviet Baltic Fleet. In the farnorth one Stukagruppe concentrated on bombing the Arctic port of Murmansk anddisrupting rail traffic down into the Russian hinterland. However as theSoviet Union slowly gathered strength the Stuka units found themselvesoutnumbered outfought and relegated to operating under cover of darkness. Thedays of the divebomber were finally over. The Schlacht or groundattackaircraft now ruled the skies above the battlefields. «
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