Junkers

It was probably Rolls Royce.

Junkers.

Junkers, okay.

And those engines were called the Junkers Jumo 004.

That makes sense.

I guess Rolls, by the time that was

They knew the sensible Germans knew they were losing in 1943, let alone 1944.

So what happened is that Martin Bormann, who was pretty much at this point number two to Hitler, along with the most powerful industrialists in Nazi Germany, which included representatives from IG Farben, Krupp, Schroders Bank, Messerschmitts, Junkers, pretty much every major military industrial complex company in Germany, Basically, we're brought together to say, look, we're going to start moving things out of Germany now, right away.

Your job is to set up dummy companies in third countries, in Argentina, in Nicaragua, in Portugal, in Switzerland, to exfiltrate people, blueprints for new weapons, that's the word described, new weapons, and capital and everything, so that we can basically wage a fourth Reich covertly.

And, you know, you hear about this, and you think, well...

As the flames die down, the remains become visible through the smoke.

It's a German plane, a Junkers.

The villagers bury the dead crew in simple graves marked by wooden crosses and salvage a few iron boxes from the twisted wreckage.

The plane had been flying from the center of Berlin.

And there are some fascinating ideas in this book.

For example, the Luftwaffe did not necessarily intend to go to war with the Heinkel He 111, Dornier 17 and Junkers Ju 87 as its principal bombers.

In fact, pre-war planning envisaged a dramatic transformation of the bomber force by the early 1940s.

Well, that was the plan anyway.

Thanks so much.

So Dan, let's start with something that might surprise quite a few of our listeners.

So we tend to think of the Luftwaffe going into the Second World War with familiar aircraft such as the HE-111, Dornier 1-7 and the Junkers 87.

But your book makes clear that these were not necessarily intended to form the backbone of the Luftwaffe's bomber force indefinitely.

Good show yourself.

You hope you don't sound like a dog in the manger, but you can't help wishing you had a Heinkel or a Junkers on your own scoreboard.

Even a Messerschmitt 109.

Everybody has 109s.

Everybody but you, that is.

All you get are assists.

Mr. Parker shot down a Junkers 88 today.

Brilliant assist by Mr. Ronald Twine.

The Italian Royal Navy engaged in blockade-breaking submarine operations, troop transportation, and naval bombardments of Republican-held coastal cities.

The Luftwaffe furnished 20 Lufthansa, nominally commercial, Junkers, 52 transport aircraft, supported by Luftwaffe, is that Henkel? It's Henkel, right? Yeah,

Henkel, yep.

Henkel H-51 fighters for the July 1936 airlift operation, which carried the Army of Africa and Foreign Legion across the Strait of Gibraltar to Spain.

not.

The Luftwaffe, you've got the Bf 109, Bf 110, the Heinkel, you've got the Dornier, Junkers, the Stukas.

Yeah.

No, Spitfires and Hurricanes, that's all we've

In 1 to 48 scale, we have the Harrier GR5 and the Douglas A4E/F Skyhawk.

Moving down to the 72nd scale with the two high-speed Junkers variants, the Ju 88 S1 and the Ju 88 S3.

Prices and release dates are still to be confirmed, but that's four more opportunities to buy familiar plastic in some potential interestingly new boxings.

Armor Hobby is returning to the early war Curtiss family with the 72nd Curtiss H-75 A1 and A2.