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December 1, 1942     No. 24            32 Pages

Cover: Relay Raids

One wave after another of Heinkel He 111 bombers approaches its objective above the clouds of smoke rising to a height of several hundred feet. The German Luftwaffe is constantly engaged with the enemy and effectively supports the ground, troops in their heavy fighting.
Luftwaffe Photograph

Articles Inside:

Destroying Supplies
Relay Raids On Oil Tanks and Ammunition Trains
PK Photographs by the War Correspondents Sperling, Schürer (Sch) and Niermann (Wb)

Pack Animals Carry Anti-Aircraft Guns
Irresistible Advance in the Mountains of the Caucasus
PK Photographs War Correspondent Rieder (Sch)

Mussolini, the Airman
An Interview with Mussolini at the Palazzo Venezia
By Rolf Italiaander, Photographs Courtesy of Archiv Italiaander, Scherl

The Most Important Types of the Royal Air Force
Photographs supplied by Archiv Deutsche Luftwaffe

The Heinkel He 111 Bomber

Six Men of the Anti-Aircraft Defence
The Gun Crew of a 20mm Anti-Aircraft Gun Bring Down Fourteen British Planes
PK Photographs War Correspondent Doelfs (Sch)

Sent to the Bottom
Photograph by Courtesy Italian Air Corps

Speedier, Steeper, and Higher
The Salient Features of the Controllable Pitch Propeller
By Wolfgang Wagner, Photographs by Junkers FM

It is the custom of the Germans to face their opponents honorably and to vanquish them manfully and not treacherously. / Emperor Heinrich II

How They Won the Oak Leaves to the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross
(Hauptmann Heinrich Schweickhardt, Hauptmann Wolfgang Schenck, Oberleutnant Günther Rall, Oberfeldwebel Max Stotz, Oberfeldwebel Josef Zwernemann)

How They Won the Knight’s Cross
(Oberleutnant Gerhard Barkhorn, Oberleutnant Walter Bornschein, Oberleutnant Ludwig Nemecek, Leutnant Hermann Hemmer, Leutnant Konrad Hennemann †, Leutnant Walter Nowotny, Oberfeldwebel Hans Schleef and Oberfeldwebel Heinrich Klöpper)

We of the Destroyer Planes
Experiences On Every Front
By Hauptmann Kiel, PK Photographs by the War Correspondent Schmelzenbart (Sch), Drawings by H. von Medley

British Bomber Provides Comforts for Our Troops
PK Photographs by the War Correspondent Dietrich (Wb)

The Standard Training Airplane
The Klemm K35 Airplane is used at an Aviation School of the German Air Corps.
Photographs by Ruge

The Emergency Technical Corps Fits Up Obstruction Lights
Photographs by Felisch, TN Correspondent

The Danube
From the Black Forest to the Black Sea
Photographs by Willy Pragher

“Love Me a Little”
Photographs Ufa (Gradow)

Both Draw In Their Legs
The “Undercarriage” in Birds and Aircraft. By Joachim Mattias
Photographs by Deutche Lufthansa and Scherl

Gerhard Fieseler Werke (Advertisement)

Focke-Wulf FW 190 (Advertisement)

Telegraph Pole WL 6023.
By Major Kierfeld, Drawings by H. von Medley

Merck (Advertisement)

Propellerwerk Schwarz Berlin (Advertisement)

Mercedes-Benz Aviatic Engines (Advertisement)

Werner von Siemens
The Fiftieth Anniversary of His Death Falls on December 6, 1942
Photograph Courtesy of Siemens Archiv

Pastime

What is That?

Weathermen (Cartoons)
Drawings by Gerd Pinguin and Nebel