Ju 52

…supplying the Luftwaffe with the Ju 52, a trimotor monoplane used as a troop transport and glider tug; the Ju 87 dive bomber (Sturzkampfflugzeug, shortened to “Stuka”); and the Ju 88, a twin-engine all-purpose bomber.

…built transports such as the Ju 52 only in small quantities, but the twin-engined Douglas C-47 Skytrain, which had revolutionized American commercial aviation in the mid-1930s as the DC-3, was produced in huge numbers and was the backbone of tactical air transport in every Allied theatre of the war. One…