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Schwarm — Flight (military unit)
Schwarm — Flight (military unit)
- Stuka — acronym for Sturzkampfflugzeug, literally: "downfall combat aircraft" figuratively: *dive-bombing aircraft". Particularly associated with the German Ju-87 dive bomber, although the German term refers to any dive bomber.
- Stukageschwader — a dive bomberwing/group, later Schlachtgeschwader in a ground support role (SG).
- Stupa — a Sturmpanzer IV assault gun.
- Sturm — assault.
- Sturmabteilung (SA) — "assault detachment," party militia, not part of the army. In the beginning the Nazi Party's "Brown Shirt" bully-boys and street brawlers that grew by 1934 into a paramilitary force of nearly a half-million men; after the purge of its leadership by the Schutzstaffel (SS) and Gestapo during the Night of the Long Knives rapidly decreased in numbers and influence.
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