Description
Secret intelligence booklet for United States strategic air forces in Europe. 32 pages, published weekly.
Topics:
German Air Force order of battle
GAF disposition by areas; enemy activity, ground defenses; eight-gun heavy positions
The GAF General Staff; a Luftwaffe Sergeant describes some of its personalities and intrigues
German general reports on Hamburg attacks of 1943
600,000 reported homeless in Cologne
Photo of a Chimney radar installation at Boulogne, IFF array
Radar and radio tracking; H2X radiations are useless for Flak control, but VHF provides enemy much information; Naxos
Notes on new German Flak weapons: single-barreled Flak 43, twin-barreled Flak 43, rocket-flak projector
Photo of a possible A-4 long-range rocket contrail
Enemy planes and equipment; reports on several new aircraft and on an assisted-takeoff rocket; BV-144, Ar-396, Siebel-304, rocket motor (pictures included of solid-rocket motor)
Photo of Me-262 with an engine on fire after an encounter with 8th Air Force P-47s on November 1st
GAF winter airfield serviceability
Upward-firing armament; GAF experiments with rockets and guns for both day and night fighter units; “Geiskanne”: six guns are slung together in a single container on ground-attack planes (photos)
Results of allied attacks; photo of P-47s attack on a train in Germany
Transportation: Forli, Graz, Saarbrucken, Cologne, Ora
Airfield and Factories: Maribor, Munster, Graz / Neudorf (photo included)
Industrial Targets; Essen (photo of Krupps factories), Vienna / Moosbierbaum (damaged Donau Chemie A.G. photo), Milan, Knapsack, Bonn
Oil Industry: Hamburg
Naval and military: Tirpitz
Enemy Opposition (daily reports)
Performance “bugs” of the FW-190 and Me109
Summary of Operations