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Cover: Three Bomber Pilots who have flown a thousand times against the Enemy. ……. Wing Commander Storp, the commodore, Hogeback, the commander, and Flying Officer Puchinger, the squadron leader, three men of a bomber wing, who have distinguished themselves in more than 1,000 flights on all the fronts. Their faces reflect their joy in life which they must fight for anew on every flight against the enemy. / Photo by war correspondent Schoedl ( Wb )

Articles Inside:
Close Escort Ordered – German and Roumanian aircraft as convoy protection in the Black Sea – The “Flying Slipper” repulses Soviet air attack / Photos by the Luftwaffe ….. What 1000 Stuka Flights Mean – A “Blitz Interview with Flight Lieutenant Rudel, Wearer of the Oak Leaves to the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross / Photographs by war correspondents Bayer and Grosse with drawings by war correspondent Marten ….. The “Jumping” Laboratory – Bacteriologists Who Fall from the Skies / PK illustrated report by war correspondent Wahner ….. Waylayers of the War – Smoking Out a Nest of Bandits in the Crimea, How the Police Troops Get Their Man / Photos: Schoenfelt and Eck ….. Plastered With Bombs – The Harbour Primorsko Achtarskij on the Sea of Asov and The Harbour of Bone / Photos by the Luftwaffe ….. The Wonders of Coal – Secrets of Modern Coal Chemistry / By Robert Bauer with Photos by Heinckel-Werkfoto, I-G. — Bildarchiv ….. “A Half-Hearted Effort Can Never Achieve a Total Success” – “The Highest Prize May Demand the Highest Sacrifice” / Fontane ….. Eleven Transport Fliers Received the Knight’s Cross: … Group Captain Foerster … Group Captain Beckmann … Squadron Leader Fath … Squadron Leader Zaehr … Flight Lieutenant Mersmann … Flying Officer Belz … Flying Officer Meltzer … Flight Sergeant Walter … Flight Sergeant Kraeussel … Flight Sergeant Frenzel … Pilot Officer Koeditz ….. The Watchful Eye – German Long-distance Reconnaissance Planes Over the Atlantic / PK-Photographs by war correspondent Roeder (Sch) ….. These are Their Targets – Bombs on Germany’s Cultural Monuments / Photos by Scherl, Mauritius, Muenchener Bildbericht, Pransocean and Staatl. Bildstelle ….. For Extreme Valour – Eight Wears of the Mannerheim Cross in the Finnish Air Force: … Squadron Leader Auvo Maunula … Flight Lieutenant Jorma Karhunen … Flying Officer Paavo Elias Kahla … Flying Officer Rolf Robert Winqvist … Pilot Officer Lauri Wilhelm Nissinen … Squadron Sergeant-Major Oliva Emil Larvo Tuominen … Squadron Sergeant-Major Viljo Fritiof Salminen … Squadron Sergeant-Major Eino Ilmari Juutilainen / By war correspondent Olavi Linnus with drawings by war correspondent P. Soederstroem ….. Boys Learn to Fence – An Important Sport for the Training of German Youth / Photos: Heinz H. Naumann ….. Life Itself Wrote the Book / Photos by Tobis ….. Furlough Bliss / Photos Sonja Georgi ….. The Unusual Journey / By War Correspondent Guenther Hoenicke with Drawings by war correspondent Ellgaard ….. Gloves Express ….. Murmansk Fighters / By War Correspondent Queiser ….. The Jump into the Night – “Step out”, orders the pilot. It is the only chance now / By War Correspondent Hans Weiss ….. The Other Side (Cartoons) / Drawings by Braehne, Klee, Martin and Schwarz