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June 2, 1942     No. 11                       32 Pages

Cover: The First Asymmetrical Airplane

Two of the new aircraft type known as the BV 141, built by Blohm & Voss for the Luftwaffe, for special purposes. It has already demonstrated its serviceability in numerous operations at the Front. Photo report in this issue.
Photograph PK-Luftwaffe (Ruge)

Articles Inside:

Two New Types of German Aircraft
The Dornier Do 217 Dive-Bomber
The Blohm und Voss BV 141 General Utility Plane.
Photographs PK Luftwaffe

All Ready to Start
Long-Distance Naval Spotter Pilots and Their Helpers.
Illustrated report by Stachelscheld (Wb), war correspondent

Mud, Nothing but Mud on All Sides.
PK illustrated article by Schalber (Sch), war correspondent

The Blind Hero of Heraclion
The First Anniversary of the Landing in Crete — Heroic Conduct of a Parachutist Company Leader.
Drawings by Wilhelm Baitz War Correspondent, Retold after a PK report by Ernest Grunwald, war correspondent

Ceylon as the Geopolitcal Center of the Indian Ocean.
By Dr. Walther Jantzen, Photo Tschira, Sketch maps by Eigener, Photograph Scherl-Bilderdienst

The Duce Visits His Airmen.
Photographs courtesy Italian Air Force

How’s the Bill of Fare Today?
“Refreshing and Nutritous” Guide the Choice of Rations for Airplane Crews.
Special Photograph by Dr. H. Franz

The Oak Leaves with Swords to the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross
(Hauptmann Herbert Ihlefeld)

The Oak Leaves to the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross
(Oberleutnant Wolfgang Späte)

How They Won the Knight’s Cross
(General der Flieger Rudolf Bogatsch, General der Flieger Helmuth Föster, Oberst Karl Koller, Major Kuno Hoffmann, Hauptmann Erich Krebs, Hauptmann Heinrich Wittmer, Hauptmann Carl-August Petersen, Hauptmann Ernst-Wilhelm Ihrig, Oberleutnant Heinz Klien, Oberleutnant Matthias Schwegler, Oberleutnant Hans-Karl Sattler, Oberleutnant Fritz Schulze, Leutnant Fritz Bliesener, Leutnant Emil Omert, Leutnant Adolf Dickfeld, Feldwebel Edmund Rossmann and Gefreiter Arnold Huebner)

An Anti-Aircraft Gun Takes a Hand
Surrounded Soviet Forces Make Vain Attempts to Break out.
Based on a PK description by Friedrich Mildner, war correspondent (Drawings by Georg Reisinger)

Wrested from Death
Operations on the Brain and Spinal Column close behind the Front.
Photographs Mauritius

Our Hunting Ground is the Night Sky
Experiences of Airmen during Defensive Operations against British Bombers.
By Jochen Grossmann, War Correspondent

What Is That?
Photograph Hans Goos

European Comradeship of Labor.
(Jan Arys, Toni Slok, Micheline Vallée, Mihai Petrovici, Zora Comadina)
Photographs by Junkers F. M., Krüger 7, Dunker 3 and Gillberg 1

A Visit to Franz Lehar
Special Interview for the Adler by Dr. H. Franz

A Trip by Canoe
A Week-End Outing with Girl Friend and Rubber Boat.
Photographs by Pollmann (Mauritius)

Gerhard Fieseler Werke (Advertisement)

Unsere JU an Allen Fronten
Junkers – JU 52 (Advertisement)

Low-level Attack
Raid by a Swarm of Wasps.
By Georg Haller, war correspondent

Heine Propeller Berlin (Advertisement)

Number Two Battery! Annihilating Fire!
By Walter Binner, war correspondent

FW 189 Focke-Wulf (Advertisement)

Argus Motoren Gesellschaft (Advertisement)

Zeiss Ikon (Advertisement)

Togal (Advertisement)

Knoll Medicines (Advertisement)

Blankoplast (Advertisement)

Mimosa (Advertisement)

Robot Berning & Co. (Advertisement)

Mercedes-Benz Aviatic Engines (Advertisement)

Efasit (Advertisement)

Perutz Filme (Advertisement)

Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke (Advertisement)

Pastime

Voigtländer Cameras (Advertisement)

Cartoons
Completely Loony.
Drawings by Karl Nebel (6), Ludwig Siegl (Bavaria 1)