Description
August 25, 1942 No. 17 32 Pages
Cover: A Condor Patrols the Seas
The German long-distance reconnaissance plane of the Focke-Wulf “Condor” type carries out extensive flights over wide stretches of ocean from the icy regions of the north to the coasts of Africa for the purpose of spotting enemy convoys and guiding submarines and bombers to fresh objectives.
Photograph courtesy Luftwaffe
Articles Inside:
The Eternal Round of Taking off, Diving, and Taking off again
The Ceaseless Rhythm of the Raids of a Dive Bomber Wing at the Russian Front
PK Photographs by Grosse (6) and Schalber (HH 3), war correspondents
A Me 109 Plane Drops Bombs
PK Photographs by Boback (3), Genzler (1) and Meinhold (1) war correspondents
And then a Change of Boat had to be made
A Submarine Picks up Airmen Forced down on the Ocean
PK Drawings by Ellgaard, war correspondent
Dark Designs round the Dark Continent
The Position of West Africa in Anglo-American Strategy
By Wolf Schmalfuss
Photographs by Andres (Tschira), Sketch Map by Tresca
No Life Without Strife / Bismarck
The Oak Leaves to the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross
Oberleutnant Victor Bauer und Oberleutnant Erwin Clausen
How They Won the Knighthood Cross
(Hauptmann Ernst-Siegfried Steen †, Hauptmann Bruno Dilley, Oberleutnant Gerhard Krems, Oberleutnant Karl-Hermann Lion, Oberleutnant Walter Stimpel, Oberleutnant Karl Schrepfer, Oberfeldwebel Walter Schalles, Oberfeldwebel Waldemar Teige, Oberfeldwebel Max Stotz, Feldwebel Rudolf Müller)
PK photographs by von Greenmeyer, Kulbe, Reimers Schalber (Sch 4), war correspondents,
Scherl-OKW (8)
They Returned Home in Spite of All
Even Serious Damage by Gunfire Failed to Bring down German Airplanes
Photographs by PK Luftwaffe (4), Obschonka, Leo (Sch 2), and Seuffert (PBZ 1), war correspondents
A Monster of Steel
An Anti-Aircraft Battalion Bags Its One Hundredth Tank
By Karl Dauscher, War Correspondent, Drawings by M. Ludwig
Polished and Burnished
Cleaning Time at a Searchlight Battery
PK Photographs by the War Correspondent Mayer (Wb)
The Minister for the Eastern Areas Visits the Ukraine
Photographs by Hans H. Hartmann
Adler Illustrated Interviews: Irina Burnaia
A Woman in Command of the Mail Squadron in Transnistria
Text and photographs by Dr. H. Franz
The Wonders of Plant Breeding
Photographs by Ufa-Kulturfilm
With Thee, Lili Marlen
Concert on the Tarmac, by Request
PK-Illustrated and written by Helmut Grosse, war correspondent
The Red Plus Ring Far and Near
Photographs by Curt Ullmann
Fighter Pilots Take Part in the Decathlon
(Hauptmann Joachim Müncheberg, Sport Leader von Tschammer)
PK photographs by the war correspondents Haussmann and Guentzel
Portraits of Airmen
Erich Cleff, Battle Painter of the Luftwaffe
(Hauptmann Priller, Oberst Galland, Helmut Wick, Oberleutnant Kiel)
Photographs by Alex Stücker
A Window with an Outlook into Universal Space
In the Astronomical Observatory of Berlin University
Photographs by Curt Ullmann
Gerhard Fieseler Werke (Advertisement)
Junkers Flugzeug – und – Motorenwerke (Advertisement)
Plunging into the Darkness of the Night
By Ockhardt, War Correspondent
Mercedes-Benz Aviatic Engines (Advertisement)
Troponwerke (Advertisement)
Mimosa (Advertisement)
Togal (Advertisement)
Perutz Filme (Advertisement)
Look out! There’s a Spitfire Abreast to Starboard!
Surprise Attack on a Bomber Formation Radio Operator Brings down a Spitfire
By Hans A. Kastner, War Correspondent
Arado AR 196 (Advertisement)
Zeiss Ikon (Advertisement)
Fritz Hesselbein Chemical Works (Advertisement)
Dr. Madaus & Co. (Advertisement)
Trilysin (Advertisement)
A Little Radio Transmitter on the Coast of the Arctic Ocean: In Praise of the Finmark Station
By Obergefreiter Fischer
Fw 190 Focke-Wulf (Advertisement)
Busch Optics (Advertisement)
Amol (Advertisement)
Zündapp (Advertisement)
Traumaplast (Advertisement)
Pastime
What is That?
Photograph by Zwirner, war correspondent
Voigtländer Cameras (Advertisement)
Cartoons
Tendency: Mainly Fair
Drawings by Mauder (3), Martin (2), Arnemann (1)