{"id":51808,"date":"2023-05-29T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=51808"},"modified":"2023-05-31T23:48:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T21:48:46","slug":"a-ju-87-stuka-dive-bomber-under-the-sea-next-to-an-island-in-croatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/05\/29\/a-ju-87-stuka-dive-bomber-under-the-sea-next-to-an-island-in-croatia\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber under the sea next to an island in Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During World War II, many planes crashed in aquatic areas and disappeared under seas, rivers, and lakes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/07\/19\/the-maid-of-harlech-the-p-38-fighter-that-was-buried-on-a-beach-for-65-years\/\">The Maid of Harlech: the P-38 fighter that was buried on a beach for 65 years<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/27\/kwajalein-a-huge-graveyard-with-about-160-world-war-ii-aircraft-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea\/\">Kwajalein: a huge graveyard with about 160 World War II aircraft at the bottom of the sea<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Over the years, the remains of many of those planes that are shallower have been located by fishermen or scuba divers. Near the island of <strong>\u017dirje<\/strong>, in present-day <strong>Croatia<\/strong>, is one such aircraft: <strong>a Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber of the Italian Air Force <\/strong>. Of the 6,500 aircraft of this type that were built by Germany, Italy received around fifty of the D-2, D-3 and R-2 types. <strong>This aircraft was probably shot down by the Yugoslav Army in April 1941.<\/strong> On April 13, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@matjazbravc\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matja\u017e Bravc<\/a> posted a video showing the remains:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Junkers Ju 87 Stuka\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6798krVqhPc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see some screenshots of this video here. <strong>Here we see the cockpit of the plane, with two seats.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52935006922_f6cf912ef6_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The stabilizers in the tail of the plane.<\/strong> They are still quite intact.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52935601831_2db33aa2e9_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The interior of the cockpit.<\/strong> What we see is the pilot's seat. The control panel of the plane in front of the seat can be perfectly distinguished.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52935994335_cd648ea257_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Junkers Jumo 211Da engine of the plane.<\/strong> It is located about 20 meters from the fuselage.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52935601826_0ae064464e_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During World War II, many planes crashed in aquatic areas and disappeared under seas, rivers, and lakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,16884],"tags":[19353,2705,12138,14675,10389],"class_list":["post-51808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-seas-and-coasts","tag-zirje","tag-aeronautica-militare-italiana","tag-croatia","tag-junkers-ju-87-stuka","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}