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August 25, 1942    No. 17

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.
Luftwaffe photograph

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 the War Correspondents Grosse and Schalber (HH)

An Me 109 Plane Drops Bombs
PK Photographs by the War Correspondents Boback, Genzler and Meinhold

And then a Change of Boat had to be made
A Submarine Picks up Airmen Forced down on the Ocean
Pk Drawings by War Correspondent Ellgaard

Dark Designs round the Dark Continent
The Position of West Africa in Anglo-American Strategy
By Wolf Schmalfuss

No Life Without Strife / Bismarck

The Oak Leaves to the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross
Oberleutnant Bauer und Oberleutnant Clausen

How They Won the Knight’s Cross
(Hauptmann Steen, Hauptmann Dilley, Oberleutnant Krems, Oberleutnant Lion, Oberleutnant Stimpel, Oberleutnant Schrepfer, Oberfeldwebel Schalles, Oberfeldwebel Teige, Oberfeldwebel Stotz, Feldwebel Mueller)

They Returned Home in Spite of All
Even Serious Damage by Gunfire Failed to Bring down German Airplanes
Photographs by PK Luftwaffe, Obschonka, Leo (Sch), and Seuffert (PBZ), War Correspondents

A Monster of Steel
An Anti-Aircraft Battalion Bags Its One Hundredth Tank
By Karl Dauscher, War Correspondent

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
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
PK photographs by the war correspondents Haussmann and Guentzel

Portraits of Airmen
Erich Cleff, Battle Painter of the Luftwaffe
Photographs by Alex Stoecker

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)

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)

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)

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