Junkers Ju 87 Stuka - In The Movies

A brief overview of the Junkers Ju 87 as seen in popular WW2 movies and video games.

Movies Featured:

Dunkirk 2017
Guernica 2016
Izetta: The Last Witch 2016
Stalingrad 2013
Red Tails 2012
The Breast Fortress 2010
Defiance 2008
Tobruk 2008
Star Trek Enterprise 2005
Dark Blue World 2001
Captain Corelli 2001
Enemy at the Gates 2001
James Bond: Octopussy 1983
Airplane! 1980
Massacre in Rome 1973
Battle of Britain 1969
The Guns of the Navarone 1961

Video Games:
Battlefield V
War Thunder
Sudden Strike 4
Call of Duty: WWII
IL-2

#ww2 #aircraft

[gooraway]

Mixing the Stuka with scenes from Flying High was genius. It is interesting how the pilot/rear gunner team was so prevalent in pre war combat aircraft design but proved so ineffective defending itself in actual combat.

[Thirdbase]

Every tank was a Tiger, every plane was a Stuka.

[dragonstormdipro]

Ahhh the diving Stuka...the sound of every diving, crashing, allied aircraft seen in Hollywood.... And even MiGs

[billsilver]

A Stuka scream can briefly be heard added to a TIE fighter's whine in Star Wars as it chases an X Wing above the Death Star.

[minxythemerciless]

The Stuka was also used as a tank killer on the Eastern Front. Some models had 37mm autocannon for this task. The highest decorated German air Ace was Hans-Ulrich Rudel who destroyed nearly 500 tanks and lived to a ripe old age.

[samraam]

The Stuka has fallen into the same Category as the A10 in that it has become Iconic to the point its use is overrated. Great when you have an ill prepared enemy and air superiority but an easy target for a well prepared enemy.

[Johnlaplander]

3:40, I have never seen this kind of view done in a ww2 movie, yes top down is popular but the detail of this is insane! The shingles all ripping off, and the way the environment reacts to the explosions is just beautiful

[ShamileII]

My favorite airplane is definitely the stuka. It's just so rugged, mechanical and purpose driven. The sirens are what I would consider It's most distinctive feature....perfect for creating confusion in It's ground support role.

[HollywoodMarine]

When I first watched Tali-Ihantala 1944, the Fw 190 at 1:14 looked slightly bigger than normal. Movie replica makes it look more like medium size bomber than fighter aircraft. Great research as always Johnny!

[fortis]

The Stuka’s Jericho siren sound also makes an appearance in the Star Wars universe

In season 2, Episode 5 of The Clone Wars, there’s a scene where Republic Y wings are conducting a dive-bombing run on Separatist AA positions, and you can hear a modified Jericho siren sound

[tavish]

my great uncle was a plane mechanic in the war
he said the stuka was the easiest and most liked platform they had
if they didnt have the parts for it it was so simple that they could just manufacture them themselves or use parts from different planes and altere them

[BHuang]

Fun Fact:
The accident at the Neuhammer training grounds near Sagen, Germany in 1939 resulted in 13 Ju 87 planes lost when all of them crashed into the ground simultaneously due to miscalculations of their diving height as the result of rolling fog obscuring the ground.

[paulskowronski]

The diving noise from Dunkirk 2017 is an audio masterpiece that shows just how terrifying the Jericho trumpet and the Stuka was for anyone who faced it shoutout to the audio and design team of Dunkirk

[yowtfputthemaskbackon]

the Stuka is a weird one, you'd think it was more of a gimmick of the time that never really made it anywhere, the whole idea of having a plane fly down into the target only to drop a bomb last minute, where it is at risk of impacting the ground or being picked off by enemy aircraft. you'd think that be a stupid idea. instead, it's one of the most feared aircraft of its time, the first to drop a bomb in ww2, the first to shoot down another plane in ww2, the favorite plane of the most decorated pilot in history, and its sirens are to this day used to invoke fear in the audience.

[CivicGLi]

Fun fact:
In the Battle of Britain (1969) film, the producers were planning to use a real surviving museum Stuka for the movie. It was too expensive to return the plane to airworthiness so they modified some Percival Proctors. They weren’t used in the film as scale models were used instead.

[Lord.Kiltridge]

Good to see a sense of humour. These vids include a plethora of movies that I don't remember seeing. I'm going to have to go back and look them up. The Ju.87 and Corsair had an inverted gull wing by the way and for similar reasons. That being to keep the under cart from being too long. For the Ju.87, it was to make room for the bomb, for the Corsair, to make clearance for the massive 13' 4" propeller. For a true gull wing configuration look to the Polish PZ-11, or the French Loire 46.

[jb]

I think the only time a real Stuka has come close to appearing in a post war movie is when the RAFMuseums example was brought up to ground running condition. Ultimately neither it nor the two scaled replicas created for the film made it to the final cut. Its a shame that the FHC's 37mm canon armed restoration of a Stuka will never be competed unless another party takes on the task of finishing and flying it. It would be something to see!

[cobyger]

8:14 the stuka had 7.92 mm mg 15, they were later replaced with 20 mm at the D-5, and then with 37 mm cannons at the G models.

[jamieolberding]

Johnny Johnson
37.3K subscribers Nice to know that you included footage from "Star Trek: Enterprise" Season 4 Episode 2 "Stormfront Part II". It not every day we see a bunch of German Junker Ju 87 Stuka Dive Bombers outfitted with Plasma Laser going up against the 22nd Century Earth starship Enterprise NX-01... an NX Class Exploratory Cruiser armed with state of the art Phase Cannons and Photonic Torpedoes.

[garrisonnichols]

I can't think of a more terrifying experience than being in the basement of your home hearing that horrible high pitched sound of a Stuka diving down somewhere next to your location. it's the stuff of nightmares.