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Cover: The Aircraft Designer – Professor Kurt Tank, a prominent leader of Germany’s Defense Economy, is one of the most successful aircraft designers of the present day, to whom the Luftwaffe owes a number of highly efficient aircraft types, such as the short-range reconnaissance plane Fw 190, and the long-range bomber Fw 200. This issue of our magazine contains an instructive contribution by Professor Tank to the question of possible developments of the modern fighter. ……. Articles Inside: … Stukas versus Bandits – Smoking Out Their Hideouts in Bosnia / PK-Photos by war correspondent Baier (Wb) ….. With the Eye of the Motor-Leka – A Stuka-bomb Searches for Its Target / By war correspondent Dr. Eckert and PK-Photos by war correspondent Helmut Grosse ….. The Take Off and How It is Done – On one of the big field aerodrome in the West / Illustrated report by war correspondent Speck (Wb) ….. Are They Still Alive? – Rescue Work after an Air Raid on Tunis / Photos by war correspondent Grosse (Sch) ….. First Medical Officer Dr. P– relates / PK-drawings by war correspondent Baitz ….. In grateful recognition of his heroic efforts in the struggle for the future of our nation the Fuehrer awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross to Air Marshal Ritter v. Grein ….. How They Won the Knight’s Cross: … Squadron Leader v. Bonin … Squadron Leader Baron v. Bibra … Flight Lieutenant Baetcher … Flying Officer Baum … Flying Officer Hans Goetz … Flying Officer Franz Goetz … Pilot Officer Haefner … Pilot Officer Geismann … Pilot Officer Guenther Schmidt, Squadron Sergeant Major Stahl … Flight Sergeant Muenster … Corporal Weiss ….. Towards the Limits of Engineering – Pursuit Planes as High-Performance Aircraft / Prof. Dipl. Ing. Kurt Tank ….. The Black Men – The Work of the Ground Staff / PK-photos by war correspondent Bruning ….. Bolsheviks Lie in Wait at the Station – AA-Guns on Flatcars Clear the Railway Line / By Sergeant Hiltebrandt and Drawings by M. Ludwig ….. “Boots, boots, boots” – Photos by war correspondent Kipper, Ohlenbostel, Schambortzky, Trauvener (Sch), Mueller-Poechel and by Seeger ( Mauritius ) ….. Heinrich George as Producer – Special Report for the “Adler” by Dr. H. Franz ….. A Hope Realized: Greater Bulgaria – Our associate editor, Dr. Franz, who has returned from a visit to Bulgaria, explains the pictures appearing on this page ….. The Army (Bulgaria) and its Commander-in-Chief ….. Strong National Character ….. German-Bulgarian Relations ….. A Fighter for Islam – The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Mohammed Amin El Husseini / Photos Lins-Morstedt ….. Squall in the Skagerrak / By war correspondent Fritz Dettmann ….. Comrades of the Air / By war correspondent Juergen Clausen and Drawings by H. von Medvey ….. Pastime ….. What is That? ….. He Who Laughs Last… Cartoons / Drawings by Jeannin, Buhr, Martin (Eugen Wild) Pinguin and Schwarz