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June 16, 1942     No. 12                     32 Pages

Cover: Equipped for Altitude Flight
Modern air combat takes place at great altitudes where human beings cannot exist without suitable protection. The breathing apparatus for high altitude flight therefore forms an indispensable part of an airman’s equipment.
Specially photographed for the ADLER by Dr. Franz

Articles Inside:

Twice One Thousand on the Channel Coast.
(Major Walter Oesau)
Photographs by Rothkopf (Sch 3), Bobeck (Sch 4), war correspondents and PK-Luftwaffe (1)

Under the Deadly Hail of Japanese Bombs.
Photograph Japan Photo Library

A Pilot Sketches His Experiences
Air Combats and Stuka Raids – Recorded immediately after Landing.
Drawings by Oberleutnant Bornschein, Photographs by Ohmeyer, war correspondent

At a Base Airdrome from Which Kerch Was Bombed
On the Landing Ground between Attacks.
Photographs by war correspondents Breu, Kunstmann, Klose and Schubert (Sch 9)

Mastering the Desert
German Aircraft at the African Front
By Gerhard Meyer, Photographs Dr. L. Guglielmetti, Scherl-Bilderdienst, Adler-Archiv, Presse-Hoffmann

Only the hour of danger can test the qualities of a man / Schiller

The Oak Leaves with Swords to the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross
(Oberleutnant Max-Hellmuth Ostermann and Leutnant Hermann Graf)

How They Won the Knight’s Cross
(Oberst Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik, Major Joachim Pötter, Hauptmann Georg Christl, Hauptmann Maximilian Otte, Oberleutnant Franz Schweiger and Oberleutnant Horst Krüger)
Photographs by the war correspondents Hug, Reimers, Schneider (Sch 3), Scherl-OKW (4), Scherl-Bilderdienst (1)

Aerial Warfare over the 68th Degree of Northern Latitude
German Horizontal and Dive-Bombers over the Arctic Ocean and Murmansk.
PK drawings by Ellgaard, War Correspondent. Based on a Report by Peter Bohlscheid, War Correspondent

The Sparks Fly.
Photograph by Dr. H. Franz

Bend or Break
The Test Pilot and His Work.
Photographs by Gerlach (2), Barbara Lüdecke (4)

South Africa as Bridgehead
Between the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean.
By Wolf Schmalfuss, Photographs Scherl-Bilderdienst, Sketch map by Eigener

Washing Day is Every Day
Photographs by Bass, war correspondent (1) and Scherl-Bilderdienst (2)

Our Hunting Ground is the Night Sky Part II.
Experiences of Airmen during Defensive Operations against British Bombers.
By Jochen Grossmann, War Correspondent, Drawings by H. v. Medvey

“You’re not in Madagascar – Here’s Germany!”
By Hans Theodor Wagner, war correspondent, Drawings by Bernhard, war correspondent

What Is That?
Photograph by Billhardt (PBZ), war correspondent

From the Editor’s Scrapbook
Twenty-five Years Ago / With the Gotha G IV over London

Red Cross and Green Cross
The Community of Work of the Life-Saving Service in the Mountains.
Photographs by Hilde Zenker

GPU
The Organization of Terror.
(Laura Solari, Will Quadflieg, Vladimir Majer, Andrews Engelmann)
Photographs by Ufa (Klitsch)

Flying over the Sound
Ninety-Eight Musicians and an Airplane.
(Wilhelm Furtwängler)
Photographs by Curt Ullmann

Degeto Kulturfilm (Advertisement)

Slavko Kvaternik
Interview with the Croatian Field-Marshal.
By Major von Pebal, Photo by Gliemann, war correspondent

Voigtländer Cameras (Advertisement)

Gerhard Fieseler Werke (Advertisement)

Chlorodont (Advertisement)

Parachutists operate in the Forefield by Night
Assault Party Wipe out an Enemy Dugout.
By Heinz Purwin, War Correspondent

E. Merck Chemical Works (Advertisement)

Togal (Advertisement)

Perutz Filme (Advertisement)

Zoellner-Werke (Advertisement)

Köllmann Getriebebau (Advertisement)

Zeiss Ikon (Advertisement)

Efasit (Advertisement)

M. Hensoldt & Söhne Optische Werke (Advertisement)

Blankoplast (Advertisement)

Pastime

Adox Foto (Advertisement)

Pigmentan (Advertisement)

Kine-Exakta (Advertisement)

Cartoons
Whimsicalities in the Sandy Desert.
Observed by Gerd Pinguin