However, also in common with its Heinkel counterpart, the Junkers bomber crews paid a terrible price in the skies over Britain; between July and October 1940, 303 of these planes were sent ...

The Heinkel wielded a payload of 4,400 lbs. of bombs in its internal bomb bay; self-defensive armament consisted of seven 7.92 mm MG-15 or MG81 machine guns, (two nose-mounted, one dorsal, two on ...