![]() This was not the Stuka’s first successful operation in World War II. The bridgehead across the Meuse was secure by nightfall. Luftwaffe historian Williamson Murray, describing the event that unfolded on that day, wrote, “Continuous Stuka attacks on French reservists holding the line had a devastating effect.” France’s infantrymen, according to a French general who witnessed the scene, “cowered in their trenches, dazed by the crash of bombs and the shriek of dive bombers.” The German air attack went like clockwork. The diarist was one Sergeant Pruemers who, as part of Germany’s 1st Panzer Division, was at that moment buttoned down and waiting to strike westward across the Meuse River and into the heart of France. … Everything becomes blended together along with the howling sirens of the Stukas in their dives, the bombs whistle and crack and burst.” ![]() ![]() Simultaneously, like some birds of prey, they fall upon their victim and release their load of bombs upon the target. ![]()
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