Stuka

[ stoo-kuh; German shtoo-kah ]

/ ˈstu kə; German ˈʃtu kɑ /

a German two-seated dive bomber with a single in-line engine, used by the Luftwaffe in World War II.

Origin of Stuka

1940–45; < German Stu(rz)- ka(mpfflugzeug) dive bomber, equivalent to Sturz dive + Kampfflugzeug combat plane

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A Stuka bomb drops on me and I wake up hours later and miles away.
Dave Dawson at Dunkirk|Robert Sydney Bowen
The Stuka was sloping down toward one of the transport ships.
A Yankee Flier in Italy|Rutherford G. Montgomery
Stan put her up 200 feet; and then, his motor screaming, he laid over and was upon the Stuka, his guns belching death.
A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F.|Rutherford G. Montgomery
Stan imagined he could hear the Stuka leader's voice crackling in over the radio.
A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F.|Rutherford G. Montgomery

He spotted a Stuka slipping in behind a screen of smoke rising from a burning freighter.
A Yankee Flier in Italy|Rutherford G. Montgomery

German dive bomber of World War II, 1940, from German shortening of Sturzkampfflugzeug, from sturz "fall" + kampf "battle" + flugzeug "aircraft."