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March 24, 1942     No. 6                          32 Pages

Cover: The Commander

The features of this pilot, who as commander is responsible for the whole crew, express thoughtful calm and utmost concentration of purpose.
PK-photograph by Sperling war correspondent

Articles Inside:

The Exacting Test of the Winter Battle
The Luftwaffe Crushed the Offensive Plans of the Soviet Command.
PK photographs by Opitz (Wb 3), Baas (Wb 6), Gayk (HH 2), Kling (Sch 1), war correspondents, and Luftwaffe (1)

Right on the Target!
Photograph Luftwaffe

After the Rainy Period
The German Luftwaffe is Faced by New Tasks in North Africa.
PK photographs Plefke (Sch 2), Doege (Sch), Oppitz (Sch), Roman Schlaus (Luftwaffe 2), war correspondents and Luftwaffe (Sch 2)

German Parachute Troops Tackle Soviet Tanks
in Ground Fighting before Leningrad.
By Hans-Georg Schnitzer, War Correspondent – PK Drawings by Wilhelm Baitz, War Correspondent

Soldiers Engaged in Their Civilian Occupations
PK written and Illustrated by Lengwenings war correspondent

Saved by a Hairsbreadth
Accidents That Passed off Happily.
By Dr. Fritz Flucke, Berlin and Drawing by Max Ludwig, Photos Archiv Junkers (3) and Adler (1)

The Air Intelligence Service at an Advanced Post.
PK photos by Opitz (Wb), war correspondent

How They Won the Knight’s Cross
(Oberleutnant Joseph Bisping, Oberleutnant Cornelius Noëll, Oberleutnant Wilhelm Fahlbusch, Oberleutnant Hans-Joachim Schibau, Oberleutnant Lothar Lau, Oberleutnant Helmut Meckel, Oberleutnant Karl Roßmann, Oberleutnant Helmut Thierfelder, Oberleutnant Rudi Schenk, Oberfeldwebel Richard Heller and Oberfeldwebel Hans Stechmann)
Photographs Scherl-OKW (10), Sperling (1), Billhardt (Sch 1) war correspondents, and private photograph (1)

From the Editor’s Scrapbook – The airship went by air

Parachute Troops Learn the Knack of Landing.
Photographs by Bruno Waske

Berlin as the Central Post Office of Europe.
Photographs by Dr. H. Franz

The Centenary of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Otto Nicolai, Herr Knappertsbusch, Professor Ernst Moravec, Professor Gottfried von Freiberg, Hofrat Franz Mairecker, Willi Boskowsky, Furtwängler and Clemens Krauss, Richard Wagner, Knappertsbusch, da Sabata, Mengelberg, Böhm, Professor Karl Schreinzer, Richard Krotschak)
Special article by Dr. H. Franz

Night without Farewell
(Rittmeister Gunner Nyborg, Anna Dammann, Erich Waschneck, Hans Söhnker, Karl Ludwig Diehl)
A New Ufa Film.
Photos Ufa-Klitzke

On Duty with the Aircraft Reporting Service in the Devil’s Swamp.
By Boback, War Correspondent, Drawings by H. Freder

Gerhard Fieseler Werke (Advertisement)

The Dornier Do 215 Fighting Plane – Dornier-Werke (Advertisement)

The Aerial Battle of February 12
Escorted by German Fighter Planes through the Strait of Dover
Air Fighting in Heavy Squalls and Snowstorm.
By Walter Binner, war correspondent

E. Merck (Advertisement)

TraumaPlast (Advertisement)

Efasit (Advertisement)

Dr. Madaus & Co. (Advertisement)

The Debris Flew Sky-High.
By Richard Wolff, war correspondent
PK photographs by Siedel (Wb), war correspondent

IG Farbenindustrie (Advertisement)

Sum Vergaser-Gesellschaft (Advertisement)

Fritz Hesselbein Chemical Works (Advertisement)

Busch Optics (Advertisement)

Mercedes-Benz Aviatic Engines (Advertisement)

Ready to Start in a Jiffy
PK photographs by Siedel (Wb), war correspondent

Robot Berning & Co. (Advertisement)

M. Hensoldt & Söhne Optische Werke (Advertisement)

Sebald’s Hair Tincture (Advertisement)

Peri Hamamelis Crème (Advertisement)

Trineral (Advertisement)

Kine-Exakta (Advertisement)

Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke (Advertisement)

Pastime

What Is That?
Photo by H. Schaller (2)

Togal (Advertisement)

Cartoons
That’s the Way:
Drawings by Bartha (2), Mauder (3), Nilsson (1) and v. Craigher (1)

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