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Here is a Stuka Dive bomber at the museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois USA.
Maybe somebody can answer this question, When I went there 35 years ago, I could have sworn that the Stuka was a Africa Corps desert version with an air/sand filter on the passenger side starboard side?
It was painted in Desert tan.
Maybe this is another one that took its place.at took its place?
Maybe somebody can answer this question, When I went there 35 years ago, I could have sworn that the Stuka was a Africa Corps desert version with an air/sand filter on the passenger side starboard side?
It was painted in Desert tan.
Maybe this is another one that took its place.at took its place?
Junkers Ju-87R-2 Tropical Stuka
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Posted 8 mo ago
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I've been planning a trip to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago for years. I'm gonna make it soon!
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Or it was simply repainted to portray an ongoing theme that the museum wanted to display. As long as the paint scheme is historically accurate, which it seems to be, the museum may have just wanted to update the aircraft to how it appeared later in the war.
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You are probably right. It was strange to see it with a furnace filter that looked metal on the side.
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Both paint schemes would be historically correct for the Luftwaffe in North Africa. Here's a photo of the one at the museum in Chicago as of 2014. That one is Ju 87 R-2/Trop. Werk Nr. 5954 It was abandoned in North Africa and found by British forces in 1941. The Ju 87 was donated by the British government and sent to the US during the war. It was fully restored in 1974 by the EAA of Wisconsin
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