The Luftwaffe did possess aircraft adapted for use as a torpedo bomber. However, it is true, we can not come across any distinctive combat success where the Luftwaffe successfully attacking Allied warships with aerial torpedoes. Even the Fw 190 was at one point tested for adaptation as a torpedo bomber.

Several variants of the Fw 190 were designed to be suitable for torpedo attacks. However most did not progress beyond the prototype stage.

In a way it is similar to how the United States Navy placed more emphasis on dive bombing instead of torpedo bombing, mainly due to the former technique’s accuracy and utility in combat. The Stukas did sank many fast and mobile Allied destroyers which are actually surprisingly hard to hit with torpedoes.

Ju-87 Stukas caused tremendous losses to Allied warships and merchant vessels early in the war. It sparked renewed vigour for Navies to develop better anti-aircraft guns and mountings.

Kampfgeschwader 77 were one of the bomber units equipped with Ju-88 A-17 torpedo bombers. They did used these aircraft for anti-shipping missions in Algerian waters. Although their combat performance was not spectacular, they did achieve some notable successes.

An aerial torpedo being lifted to rearm a Ju-88 bomber aircraft.

The Ju-88 bombers hit the Liberty ship SS Jared Ingersoll (7180 GRT) carrying fuel and supplies in Algeria, which was put out of service. On another occasion, USS Holder (DE-401) escorting a convoy was attacked and damaged beyond repair by aerial torpedoes launched by KG77.

An Edsall class destroyer escort, one of her similar looking sister ship, USS Holder was heavily damaged by a torpedo launched from a Ju-88, rendered into a constructive total loss.

As the war drags on to early 1944, KG77 was relocated to operate in the English Channel, there their Ju-88s continued to inflict losses on Allied shippings. HMS Boadicea a B-class destroyer exploded and sank with heavy loss of life when she was hit by aerial torpedoes from the Kampfgeschwader. Shortly another supply ship SS Albert C. Field (1760 GRT) was struck and sent below the waves.

SS Albert C. Field, a small supply coaster was hit and sunk by Ju-88 torpedoes. Notice the Luftwaffe did not use electric torpedoes for their aircraft, but G7es were widely used on U-boats.

Close up of the cockpit and torpedo of a Ju 88 from 3./KG77, May 1944.

It is suffice to say, the Germans did introduce torpedo bombers to sink enemy ships, but they were less well known and certainly not as glamorous as their dive bomber brethren.

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Ju 88 A 3Z+ KH 1/KG 77 with torpedo September 1943.

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Close up of the cockpit and torpedo of a Ju 88 from 3./KG77, May 1944.

Combat history of KG77 were sourced from:

Ju-88 Aces of World War 2 by Robert Forsyth page 80

War Dairy and Timeline sourced from:

World War II Sea War, Volume 13: New Guinea, Normandy and Saipan.