But the German re-armament began again in the 1930s, attracting the attention of aircraft designer Ernst Heinkel. Heinkel ...

The two most famous of the bunch were the Heinkel He 111 and the Junkers 88 ... a 15.3 percent chunk of the 1,977 total Luftwaffe aircraft losses for Herman Goering’s ultimately doomed campaign.

The He 111 made its maiden flight on February 24, 1935, and entered into the official operational service of “die Vaterland” later that year. The Heinkel wielded a payload of 4,400 lbs.