It started as a commercial airliner—with a strange double-wing design and trimotor setup—but became one of WW2’s deadliest tools. The Junkers Ju 52 went from connecting cities to bombing Guernica.

As dawn broke on April 26, 1937, the hum of Junkers Ju 52s pierced the stillness over Gerrikaraiz. Emerging from the pioneering mind of Hugo Junkers, these aircraft, with their corrugated metal skins ...

The USS ‘Yorktown’ was sunk by a Japanese submarine in the Battle of Midway in June 1942 and now rests at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She has been writing ...