The Heinkel wielded a payload of 4,400 lbs ... thus constituting a 15.3 percent chunk of the 1,977 total Luftwaffe aircraft losses for Herman Goering’s ultimately doomed campaign.

When a six month standstill expired after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, the aircraft manufactures began to produce once again. One of those companies, Heinkel Flugzeugwerke, formed in ...