Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot

After recounting his early days as a naval cadet, including a voyage to the Far East aboard the cruiser _Köln_, and as the navigator/observer of the floatplane carried by the pocket battleship _Admiral Scheer_ during the Spanish Civil War, the author describes his flying training as a Stuka pilot.

The author’s naval dive-bomber Gruppe was incorporated into the Luftwaffe upon the outbreak of war. What follows is a fascinating Stuka pilot’s-eye-view of some of the most famous and historic batt...