Files: Ju52/3m Bomber
Ju52/3m Bomber
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DownloadsJu52/3m - there's various account of it's configuration as a bomber. I you know better then shout!!
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Wepamyepi
09-05-2011 at 18:27
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IIRC the Ju52/3m was used as an interim bomber during the Spanish Civil War by the Legion Kondor until their Do17s and He111s showed up, after which they were relegated to transport duties. Still, I think the Finns also used the Ju52/3m as a bomber, but I don't know of any situation where it was done while in Luftwaffe livery. BTW, I was wondering about how to handle an actual disparity in firepower between the various gun positions. "Iron Annie" usually had a 13mm firing from the aft dorsal position, while the side positions (modified passenger windows, really) each had a single 7.92mm MG(15?). I've got a similar concern regarding several of the other bombers (both official and community-generated) but I suppose that's a topic for another thread... |
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Wepamyepi
09-06-2011 at 20:35
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Ah hah, I misspoke! Apparently the Ju52/3mg3e bomber/transport was employed by the Luftwaffe as a bomber while they were still flying around in their white & black (i.e., pre-hostilities) color scheme... and the Portuguese also had a few of them, armed pretty much like what you have on the card. Turns out that the aft dorsal mount would have either a 7.92mm MG15 or a 13mm MG131 -- and many of the bombers also had a retractable rear-firing "dustbin" ventral gun position (figure wingtip-to-wingtip firing arc) with another MG15 located right about dead center on that upper fuselage panel between the wing flaps. If you really want to get a little crazy with its armament, there were about a dozen transport convoy escort conversions done in 1941 that were armed like the bomber version except there were either one or two MG15s in the ventral turret and a 20mm MG151 cannon(!) in a dorsal turret. Talk about 360 degrees of pain... As for the Finns, they probably used whatever they could get their hands on. The only documented conversion of a transport to a bomber that I could find wasn't of a Ju52/3m -- it was a Douglas DC-2. |
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Naharaht
09-04-2012 at 20:41
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Wepamyepi said,"The only documented conversion of a transport to a bomber that I could find wasn't of a Ju52/3m -- it was a Douglas DC-2.". The Russians converted some Lisunov Li-2's (the Russian built version of the Douglas C-47 Dakota) for bombing. They carried four 250kg bombs under the wings plus smaller bombs internally to be thrown out of the cargo hatch by the crew (See Wikipedia). Most German bombers started life as 'airliners' or 'mailplanes'. The Bristol Blenheim was developed from the Type 142 fast transport. |
