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This was not the Stuka’s first successful operation in World War II.

The bridgehead across the Meuse was secure by nightfall. Luftwaffe historian Williamson Murray, describing the event that unfolded on that day, wrote, “Continuous Stuka attacks on French reservists holding the line had a devastating effect.” France’s infantrymen, according to a French general who witnessed the scene, “cowered in their trenches, dazed by the crash of bombs and the shriek of dive bombers.” The German air attack went like clockwork. The diarist was one Sergeant Pruemers who, as part of Germany’s 1st Panzer Division, was at that moment buttoned down and waiting to strike westward across the Meuse River and into the heart of France.

… Everything becomes blended together along with the howling sirens of the Stukas in their dives, the bombs whistle and crack and burst.” He was a highly decorated officer and was the most successful ground-attack pilot in the history of aerial warfare.Simultaneously, like some birds of prey, they fall upon their victim and release their load of bombs upon the target. Hans-Ulrich Rudel was a German Luftwaffe military aviator during World War II. Hans-Ulrich Rudel is the 79th most popular military personnel (down from 76th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Poland (down from 36th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Military Personnel. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019).

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans-Ulrich Rudel has received more than 1,855,919 page views. He claimed nine aerial victories and the destruction of more than 800 vehicles. The most decorated German pilot of the war and the only recipient of the Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds, Rudel was credited with the destruction of 519 tanks, one battleship, one cruiser, 70 landing craft and 150 artillery emplacements. Hans-Ulrich Rudel (2 July 1916 – 18 December 1982) was a German ground-attack pilot during World War II and a post-war neo-Nazi activist.