Junkers Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
For the Prussian/German landowning classes, see "junker".
The name Junkers is well known in connection with aircraft, which were produced under this name for the Luftwaffe during World War II. They were instrumental in many campaigns such as bombing Guernica and airborne landings on Crete with Ju 52, or massive bombardments by Ju 87 Stukass). By this time, however, the Nazi government had already seized control of his businesses, and Hugo Junkers himself was dead.
World War II saw Junkers factories as a leading producer of military aircraft such as the Ju52 "Tante Ju" and the Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber.
Junkers aircraft included:
- Junkers Ju W33, single-engined ligh transport, 1926
- Junkers Ju W34, single-engine light transport+reconnaissance (development of W33), 1933
- Junkers Ju 52 Tante Ju (Auntie Ju), transport + bomber
- Junkers Ef 61, high-altitude fighter + reconnaissance (prototype)
- Junkers Ju 86, bomber + reconnaissance
- Junkers Ju 87 Stuka, dive-bomber
- Junkers Ju 88, bomber + reconnaissance + night-fighter
- Junkers Ju 89, heavy bomber (prototype)
- Junkers Ju 90, bomber (prototype)
- Junkers Ju 188, Rächer (Raecher), bomber
- Junkers Ju 248, re-designation of Me 263
- Junkers Ju 252, transport
- Junkers Ju 287, heavy bomber (jet-engined) (prototype)
- Junkers Ju 288, bomber (prototype)
- Junkers Ju 290, long-range bomber (prototype)
- Junkers Ju 322 Mammut, transport glider (prototype), 1941)
- Junkers Ju 352 Herkules (Hercules), transport
- Junkers Ju 388 Störtebeker, reconnaissance + night-fighter
- Junkers Ju 390, long-range bomber
- Junkers Ju 488, heavy bomber