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A Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber, captured in North Africa in 1941. (Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago).

The rear cockpit machine guns of a Junkers Ju 88 bomber. The aircraft was flown by the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War (1939-45).

A Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber during the Netherlands campaign in the Second World War (1939-45). (Netherlands Ministry of Defence)

A U.S. P-51 Mustang fighter and B-17 Flying Fortress bomber at the Chino Airshow in California, 2014. The Mustang acted as a long-range fighter escort to the B-17 during bombing raids such as those over Germany in the latter stages of the...

An aerial photograph showing the bomb damage following the thousand-bomber raid on Cologne in 1942. (Australian War Memorial)

A 1942-5 photograph of a gunner in the nose of a U.S. B-17 Flying Fortress bomber during the Second World War (1939-45).

A photograph showing the destruction after the bomber raid on Dresden in 1945 by the RAF and USAAF during the Second World War (1939-45). (German Federal Archives)

A 1962 photograph showing a memorial for the tens of thousands of civilian victims of the bomber raid on Dresden in 1945 by the RAF and USAAF during the Second World War (1939-45). (Deutsche Photothek)

A c. 1940 photograph showing a formation of Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 bomber planes during the Second World War (1939-45). (German Federal Archives)

A photograph showing a Martin Baltimore bomber of the Allied Desert Air Force bombing targets behind the Axis lines during the Second Battle of El Alamein (Oct-Nov 1942) in the Western Desert Campaigns (June 1940 to January 1943) in North...