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The evolution of Heinkel HE-III



HE-III "Pedro I"
(Picture I)
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

I have got feedback that I have made mistake when I have chosen a picture for one of my texts. And the bomber of the picture would be Japanese Mitsubishi G4M "Betty"-bomber, but the picture is really Heinkel HE-III, what was in use of the "Pedro I" squadron of the  Condor Legion, and after the Spanish civil war the nose of that plane was planned and rebuild in the new form, and this form is one of the most iconic bombers in the WWII. Those changing in the shape of the aircraft claimed to made because of better aerodynamics, but there can be some other reasons for making that glass nose.

The glass structure was actually the mistake, and many times is asked the reason, why this bomber was remade for the new form? Was there something, what Nazis wanted to hide? Was something happens, what caused the reason for changing the form of the bomber? There are many questions about the actions of Hitler's Germany before the WWII, and one of the questions is, why those aircraft couldn't be planned or produced in a proper way?

HE-III Spanish nationalists
Picture II


There were many things, like bureaucracy and always changing models, what made brakes to produce the aircraft and other equipment. But advantages in allied equipment forced Germany to make aircraft and submarines what were very good on paper, but there were too few of them or they were unpractical in other ways.  Some of the new equipment like Type XXI submarines were grown in the size, what made impossible to fit them to shipyards, what was used for making Type VII submarines, and also new aircraft were not fit to the production lines.

HE-III WWII
(Picture III)

The new tanks were too heavy for the lines and the afraid that the engineer who has made the mistakes were executed caused, that the errors in the modeling or production models were not told to the leaders of the war. And this was the reason, why Germans spent too much time with the rockets and other kinds of stuff, what was too advanced for producing even in peacetime was put in the production during the war. And they were not even tested before those things like some aircraft entered service.

Mitsubishi G4M
(Picture IV)


Heinkel HE-III bomber was used on all fronts. That bomber used as the torpedo bomber against ships and there were questions, why the side engines would not equip with similar cannons, what used in the Bf-109 fighter, there were also planned to install rockets what were similar, that used in the British "Beaufighter" attack aircraft, Those rockets and cannons could give the low flying torpedo bomber extra firepower against the targeted ships. But then that thing ever installed to that bomber. This is one of the things, what is left as the questions of the Second World War.

Picture I

https://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/germany/aircrafts-2/heinkel_he111/he111-pedro-1-of-the-legion-condor/

Picture II

http://www.geocities.ws/scwmofs/D684A.jpg

Picture III
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/world-war-2/images/b/bb/Heinkel_He_111.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121230221029

Picture IV

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/G4M_Type_1_Attack_Bomber_Betty_G4M-13.jpg

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