Down To Earth
Down To Earth:
A stainless steel sculpture of a downed Junkers JU 87 B Stuka by Hex.
This is at the Battle of Britain Memorial at Capel-le-Ferne.
When I was a boy I revelled in the comic strip war stories in my comic, the Eagle. German soldiers were regularly blown out of their machine gun nests or personnel carriers by grenades with cries of Gott Im Himmel or the like. My favourite plane though, rather than the Hurricane or Spitfire, was the Stuka. Those angled wings and dangling wheels gave it a sinister giant insect appearance, and that screaming siren as it dived and bombed or strafed the poor souls on the ground completed the terror package.
As this is a representation of a crashed plane I would have thought the nose would be more crumpled, but I'm being picky.
Down To Earth
Down To Earth:
A stainless steel sculpture of a downed Junkers JU 87 B Stuka by Hex.
This is at the Battle of Britain Memorial at Capel-le-Ferne.
When I was a boy I revelled in the comic strip war stories in my comic, the Eagle. German soldiers were regularly blown out of their machine gun nests or personnel carriers by grenades with cries of Gott Im Himmel or the like. My favourite plane though, rather than the Hurricane or Spitfire, was the Stuka. Those angled wings and dangling wheels gave it a sinister giant insect appearance, and that screaming siren as it dived and bombed or strafed the poor souls on the ground completed the terror package.
As this is a representation of a crashed plane I would have thought the nose would be more crumpled, but I'm being picky.