Years ago ice, i.e. more than 300 posts so I can’t retrieve it from the site archive, I asked members if they knew of the RAF using Stukas in North Italy in 1945. The reason was that two Veterans had assured me there were Stukas in a cab rank during at least one battle they were in.

Members had knowledge of Axis plans being captured, but not all precise usage thereafter. I made an enquiry with the Historical Section of RAF Hendon, and eventually got a defining reply that Stukas were not used as Dive Bombers by the RAF in this theatre – actually I think they probably said nowhere at all.

While the memory of the Veterans was very good and their personal accounts clear, logical and up to scrutiny, this issue of the RAF Stuka I left them with and could only note that the style and manor of the planes in the cab rank led some to think they closely resembled Stukas.

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