Did Stukas support Schmalz Panzer corps and what about air interdiction?
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While I cannot say what really happened, the term "StuKa" refers very narrowly to all variants of the Junkers Ju-87 plane. While it might be understood to refer to the role of dive bomber because that is literally what it means, it does in fact only refer to that specific plane and all it's variants. Germans had no other dive bombers anyway and no German would refer to another dive bomber as StuKa.
StuKas were vulnerable all through the war without air supremacy or at least superiority, but if it's all you have, then that's what you use. There is no alternative.
StuKas are also very distinctive in shape, especially the slight V in the wings and the fixed landing gear. It would be hard to confuse them with any other aircraft.
So if someone wrote something about "StuKas" then they meant the Ju-87. That does not rule out that they were mistaken and it was in fact different planes, but if the planes were referred to as "StuKa" then the person thought it were Ju-87 planes.
At least one squadron of the Regia Aeronautica (Italian Air Force) flew Ju-87 planes, too. So it may have been German planes or it may have been Italian planes, but it's likely that the acount is correct and it was StuKas.
To quote the wikipedia page about operation HUSKY:
Italian Stukas sank the destroyer USS Maddox and the Indian hospital ship Talamba, and in the following days Axis aircraft damaged or sank several more warships, transport vessels and landing craft starting with the Allied troopship USS Barnett hit and damaged by an Italian bomber formation on the morning of 11 July. Italian Stukas (named Picchiatello in Italian service) and Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 torpedo-bombers coordinated their attacks with German Stuka and Ju 88 bomber units.
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