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Cover: … General Show of New Weapons – The Secretary of State for Air and Inspector General of the Luftwaffe, Air Chief Marshal Milch and the Reich Minister for Armament and War Production Speer watch the performance of a new weapon. Illustrated report inside this number. Photo by Kobierowski ……. Articles Inside: … In the Counter-Thrust – Fighting troop of anti-aircraft artillery secure the advance of Tiger panzers. / PK Photos by war correspondent Rheinlaender (Sch) ….. An Act of Fidelity – The Bold Coup-de-main in the Abruzzi Mountains ( Rescue of Mussolini ) / PK Photos by war correspondents von Kayser (PBZ, Wb) and Schneider (HH) ….. General Show of New Weapons – Meeting at an aerodrome / Photos by Kobierowski ….. GO 242 – A new freight glider of the German Luftwaffe / PK Photos by war correspondent Wanderer (PBZ) ….. A Little Incident / PK Photos by war correspondent Genzler (PBZ) ….. “The Great White Way Over Berlin” / Auslandsfoto (Sch) ….. 218 Air Victories – Flight Lieutenant Nowotny tops the list of all German fighter pilots / PK Photos by war correspondents Klose and Richter (HH) ….. The Fatherland May Demand Every Sacrifice / Theodor Koerner ….. How They Won Their Knight’s Cross: … Colonel Krause … Squadron Leader Hunn … Flight Lieutenant Oster … Flight Lieutenant Mueller … Flight Lieutenant Meinicke … Flight Officer Schalanda … Flying Officer Kuffner … Pilot Officer Nemitz … Pilot Officer Ebener … Flight Sergeant Rueffler ….. Spitzbergen – An Outpost on the Edge of the Arctic Ocean / By Wolfgang Schmahl / PK Photos by war correspondent Rehor (Sch), Scherl-Bilderdienst, Map drawing by Trester ….. Three Days and Two Nights in the Air – From September 22 to 24, 1943 NSFK Obersturmfhrer Ernst Jachtmann achieved a new world record in a duration gliding flight of 55 hours, 52 minutes and 50 seconds / PK Illustrated report by war correspondent Dr. H. Franz ….. Landed Among the Bolsheviks – Shot at and wounded by the Soviets when hanging in his parachute. A pistol that twice saved his life. / By war correspondent Rupprecht Radebach / PK Drawings by war correspondent Schimpke ….. Hold That Line! – Field Sports of Foreign Workers in Berlin / Photographs: Scherl-Bilderdienst (Hoffmann) ….. Metropolitan Melody 1943 / Photos by Sigrid Hansen, Scherl-Archiv, Atlantik and Transozean ….. Chiemsee Fisherwomen / Photographs: Hilde Zenker ….. Sun, Wine and Colourful Peasant Costumes – A Sunday Visit in Southern Tyrol / Photographs by SS war correspondent Rottensteiner (Sch) ….. Stuka on the War Path – Stuka Flier Turns Pursuit Pilot and Shoots Down Soviet Fighter / By war correspondent Alfred Strobel ….. The End of a “Sunderland” / Drawing by H. von Medvey ….. Pastime ….. What is That? ….. A Sylvan Drama – Excerpts from the Barvaria Educational Film “Take Care – An Adder!” / Photographs: Bavaria