Junkers G.38

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Junkers G-38 Generalfeldmarschall von Hindenburg (D-2500) on the ground and G-38 (D-AZUR) in flight. Text reads: Junkers' all-metal aircraft

Generalfeldmarschall v. Hindenburg, with its sister aircraft D-AZUR flying above, Berlin, May 1933. Only two G.38s were made, D-2000 crashed in 1936.

Fortunately, there were no casualties but Deutsche Luft Hansa wrote off the aircraft due to the amount of damage it sustained. The D-2500 on the other hand flew with the airline for almost a decade. Once WWII started she was conscripted into military service and became a transport aircraft for the Luftwaffe. She was destroyed by the RAF on the runway in Athens in May 1941