Soft spot goes to the JU 87 Stuka.
My dad marched across Africa and Europe in Patton's infantry during WWII, and when asked which Axis plane he feared the most, it was the Ju-87 Stuka. There ain't an infantryman alive that doesn't hate an opposing ground pounder. Dad talked of the dive whistles they had on them which made them scream. Made the men on the ground scream too-it literally drove some of them crazy. When the Stuka's came in, Dad said they'd throw up so much machine gun, AA, and small arms fire, it'd look like you could walk on the tracers, and most of the Krauts still made it through. One didn't-Dad's unit got straffed and dive bombed one time by the Stukas and they managed to knock one down. When the schidt died down, Dad went and found the wreck and pulled a tail light beacon off it. That, and some trench art, a crude ring fashioned out of some fine German tubular aluminum from that plane wreck are two of my most favored possessions.
