Oh, yeah, an early version of the P51 Mustang was built as a dive bomber and performed reasonably well in the Italian campaign.
EDIT: Somehow I totally missed Boyo Jim’s post. But yeah, The P-51 Mustang began its military career as a dive bomber, the A-36 Apache. IIRC, it was designed as a fighter, but there was a shortage of the Merlin engines, so they fitted it with an Allison engine and modified the design for dive bombing/ground attack. The two planes look similar, but the Apache had an entirely different wing design.
No tail gunner in that one though.
Dedicated dive bomber designs used by the US military included the Vought SB2U Vindicator (affectionately referred to as the “Vibrator” and “Wind Indicator”, if that gives you any clues in how effective it proved in combat), the Douglas SBD Dauntless (“Slow But Deadly”), and the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver (“The Beast”, “Son-of-a-Bitch, 2nd Class”). All of those were carrier-based. I don’t recall that the Army Air Forces had any two-seat dive bombers, and I want to say they mostly used fighters or modified fighters like the Apache for that kind of attack, and otherwise relied on various horizontal-bombing designs ranging from the Douglas A-20 Havoc on the lighter side to the B-29 Super Fortress on the much heavier side.
Worst. Rollercoaster ride. Ever.
Wow, he was, wasn’t he? And the article says he was consulted during the development of the A-10 Warthog. Pretty amazing.
I recommend the book, if you can find it. He was reportedly a pretty fanatical Nazi, but he omitted any mention of that stuff in the book.
The operative phrase is, “Fucking Nazi.”
Certainly not audio tape – that hadn’t been invented at the time. The best they had then was wire recording, and those were too big & heavy, and too delicate, to be installed on a dive bomber.
The only way it could have been done was to have a dedicated radio frequency for the music, and if tuned into it, the planes couldn’t get orders or talk to each other.
I understand they did this playing Strauss when the entire German military waltzed through France. 
they could use receivers with more than one channel and have channels with one or more having priority over others. i have no actual radio model in mind but the technology was there (though the space might not have been).
at the start of the thread it can to mind that the gunners had to be good vocalists and they modified the excitement of their backwards thrill ride into a tune for both to enjoy.
I saw some airmen interviewed on one of those Military Channel shows who specifically said that when the dive bomber started down, it was impossible for the tail gunner to do anything useful, he’d just hang in the harness. I think they were talking about Dauntlesses in the Pacific, but the same physics would be in effect for Stuka crews.
British fighter pilots learned to lurk and pick off the Stukas as they pulled out of their dives. The Stuka’s dive brakes slowed it enough that its fighter cover would overshoot, so the fighters didn’t dive with them, and when pulling up from the dive, the pilot and gunner were laboring under many Gs (unable to look around and maneuver) and the aircraft was slowing down (in its climb), making it extremely vulnerable.
The way the crew duties are divied up in some of those multi-man planes get kind of interesting too. From what I understand, in the Grumman TBF Avenger, one of the two gunners controlled the radio, which was problematic if he was the one who got killed during a torpedo run.
Meanwhile, in the B-17 Flying Fortress, they found that the radio operators tended to suffer disproportionately more stress than any of the other positions on the bomber, and they realized it was because during a battle, the radio operator felt completely helpless, sitting in his cubby hole having no active role in fending off the German fighters or laying in the bombs. So they equipped the radio operator’s position with a machine gun that wasn’t very well placed to hit much of anything.
Didn’t have much direct benefit, but it made the radio operators feel a lot better about their place in the world.