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Date	Original Language	Origin	Issued	Keywords, Description	View
1940 March 17th	German	France, Germany, Paris-Villeneuve-Orly	German newspaper 'Bergische Volkszeitung'	Airattack on French Orly airfied by German airforce This picture shows, how good the German airforce meets the intended targets. One can clearly see under point 1, 2 and 3 burnings hall that were perfectly met. Point 4 again shows a perfect hit on a hall. Point 5 is a big storehouse and 6 a burning fuel-store. The triangles mark destroyed aircrafts. The airship-halls at the bottom of the picture have not been attacked.	view
1940 May 8th	German	Germany	unidentified German newspaper	Civil reaction on air raidsWe strongly recomment to act like follows; 1. Leave at once the streets and hurry to public or civil air raid shelters or trenches. 2. After end of attack, remain in the houses for some time, as the streets may be still dangorous. 3. Inquisitive people are not wanted on areas of damages. They hinder helpers at work and risk own damages. 4. No-one is allowed to leave cities for no reasons. Our unvincible resitance and will for victory makes it possible to bear temporarly difficulties in life and labour.
1940 May 15th	German	Germany	unidentified German newspaper	Victorious leaders of the German airforce receiving the knight cross: Generaloberst Milch (midle), Generalleutnant Geisler (right) and Major Halinghausen (left)	view
1940 June 3rd	German	France, Germany,	German OKW (High Command of Wehrmacht), newspaper RLZ	France, Germany, Paris The German Luftwaffe opened the war against France by attacking all airfields and aircraft plants close to Paris. Most of them were destroyed.
1940 June 5th	German	France, Germany, Tournes airfield	unidentified German newspaper	Airattack on French Tournes airfied by German airforce After attacking French Tournes airfield. Many aircrafts are totaly destroyed.	view
1940 June 6th - reported in issue of 14th of June	German	France, Germany	Bergische Volkszeitung	As the German High Command reports on the 4th of June was the heaviest battle ever seen won in Flandern and Artois. The French losses on aircrafts between 10th of May and 3rd of June are: 1142 losses in dog fights 699 grounded by anti-aircraft guns 1600 to 1700 destroyed on ground. During this battle Germany lost 432 airplanes.
1940 June 25th	German	Germany	unidentified German newspaper	General-Oberst Milch visiting German Stuka pilots on temporay airfield in France	view
1940 June 12th	German	Germany, Junkers Ju 87	unidentified German newspaper	A view in an German aircraft plant, that produces dive bombers. This German airplance are the onliest of this kind of the world. No other country succeeded, to built such a powerful airplane. The picture shows one of the big halls, in that this Junkers Ju 87 is manufactured in series.	view
1940 June 15th	German	France, Germany,	German newspaper RLZ	Colmar, France, Germany, Maginotlinie, Mühlhausen, Ju 87, Saarbrücken, Stuka With assistance of the German airforce Stuka bombers the German infantry succeeded breaking through the French Maginot Line south of Saarbrücken very fast. A little later the Maginot Line fell close Colmar and Mühlhausen. Whenever the weather was favourable, the Stuka-sqadrons attacked the fortresses with heavy bombs until there was no more backfiring.
1940 July 7th	German	France, Germany,	German newspaper RLZ	France, Germany From beginning on the 4th of July to the armistice 25th of June did the French airforce loose in dogfight 383 aircrafts by groundfire 155 aircrafts destroyed on ground 239 aircrafts ground fire and airfight 15 aricrafts alltogehter 792 aircrachts. Additional barrage balloons and 1 captive balloon. One German destroyer sqadron grounded until the 14th of June 101 French aircrafts, a fighter sqadron succeeded until 11th of June 50 groundings. In the same time did the German airforce destroy a French destroyer-ship and a vessel with together 5100 tons and 40 civil ships. The damaged 3 cruiser, 1 destroyer and 25 civil ships.
1940 July 11th	German	France, Germany, Tours airfield ?	German newspaper RLZ	A German soldier inspects the effects of German bombing on a French airfield.	view
1940 July 11th	German	France, Germany, Tours airfield	German newspaper RLZ	German soldiers inspecting occupied French airfield close Tours	view
1940 July 13th	German	Germany, Great Britain, Haarlem, Netherlands, Wellington	German newspaper Rheinische Landeszeitung	Netherlands under the protection of the German Army. A close to Haarlem shot down British Wellington bomber.	view
1940 July 16th	German	Germany, Great Britain, Norway	German newspaper Rheinische Landeszeitung	A view out of a German bomber, securing a German Navy transport vessel on its way to Norway.	view
1940 July 19th	German	Allied, Germany	German newspaper RLZ	Germany Strong warning. Even the smalles light can lead enemy airplanes to your home. Some people had lighted some candles in a small chapel out of a village close the Rhine river. An enemy bomber caught the tiny light, comig out of the chappel and thought it was a light of a village house and dropped a bomb. It missed the target and expoleded on a field close by. This should be a strong warning to all people, to care for absolute darking of their homes.
1940 September 1st	German	Germany, Great Britain	German newspaper - unidentified	Mounting bombs for England onto a Stuka dive-bomber.	view
1940 September 2nd	German	Germany, Great Britain	German newspaper R.L.Z.	German pilots train identifying British Navy boats with small models.	view
1940 September 4th	German	Allied, Germany	German newspaper RLZ	Germany, Remscheid Allied bombing airplanes attacked the German city Remscheid in the night 6th to 7th of August and dropped explosive and phosphor bombs, that just met the edge of the city. There were only little damages.
1940 September 14th	German	Germany, Great Britain	German newspaper R.L.Z.	Destroying Spitfires. The high command of the German Luftwaffe (air force) is publishing, that due to the German attacks of South England, the Luftwaffe is more and more involved in dog fights with British fighter planes. During this, the Luftwaffe grounded on a single day close the Ilse of Wight and Dover 49 foes, among them 33 Spitfires, on sunday again, 90 British warplanes where grounded, also among them many Spitfires.	view
1940 September 14th	German	Germany, Great Britain	German newspaper R.L.Z.	Britsh murderes over city and village This is how the military targets of the British airgangsters look like. Destroed homes and farmes are witnesses of the nightly attacks, for which Great Britain will now feel our revanche. Left, a bombed down house in southern Germany, middle: the left over of a farm in Rhinelands, right: a foreigner hostel in Hamburg.	view
1940 September 14th	German	Germany, Great Britain	German newspaper R.L.Z.	Britsh targets: private homes Again criminal bombing of our capital. In the night to the 11th of Sept. did the British airpirates attack housing areas, schools and hospitals of the captial. Our pictures are showing destroying on private homes. Centre: workers hostel, Left: this house of Hamm/Westfalia was damaged by a nightly attack, right picture: even buildings of cultural value are victims of the airpirates. On a nighly attack on Soest, , the oldest city of Westfalia, the British airforce dropped phosphor-bombs on a line of historic private houses.	view
1940 October 2nd	German	Germany	German newspaper 'Bergische Volkszeitung'	We received a warning from Berlin, that no-one should try to touch or salvage drifting or grounded captive balloons. Ropes of drifting balloons can hold heigh static electricity or be in contact to a power line. Touching ropes or balloons can also cause the explosion of the ballon. So it is mortal dangerous going close to them. If you see a drifting or grounded balloon, please contact the nearest police-office, the electricity company or the army.
1941 May 17th	German	Germany, Great Britain	German newspaper of Hückeswagen	Airattack Armstron-Whitworth bombing Germany Great Britain Hamburg Royal Airforce The German Army grounded an Armstrong-Whitworth 'Whitley' bombing plane during the air attack of the Britsh Royal Airforce close the Hochbahnhof - Airfield of Hamburg.	view
1941 June 2nd	German	Germany, Great Britain	R.L.Z.	Unforgettable ist the victory of our parachuters. In hard fighting, they sweeped out the enemy of Kreta.	view
1941 August 28th	German	Germany	German newspaper BNZ	Oberleutnant Philipp Knightcross with oakleaves Ritterkreuz mit Eichenlaub The German Airforce officer Oberleutnant Phillip received the oakleaves to the knightcorss because of his 62th air victory. He is now the 33rd oakleave holder of the German Army.	view
1941 November 27th	German	Germany	German newspaper BNZ	Transportation of bread in a Ju 57Supplying the German soldiers on the front engages all possible transportation. Also Ju 57 aircrafts are in use. You see fresh bread, being loaded in a Ju57 and ready for shipping to the front. (picture by Kriegsberichter Jütte)	view
1941 November 27th	German	Germany	German newspaper BNZ	Heinkel He 111, The Berlin zoo donated a young lion to a Luftwaffe bomber squadron. A member of a He 111 is keeping the little lion in his arms. (picture by Kriegsberichter Elsner)	view
1941 November 30th	German	Germany	German newspaper RLZ	Werner Mölders The coffin with the war hero Oberst Mölders is placed in the entrance of the hall of the Reichs Airforce Ministery in Berlin. A quard of Airforce Officers is giving him a last honour.	view
1941 December 3rd	German	Germany, Great Britain	German newspaper BNZ	Airattack Berlin bombing Germany Great Britain Royal Airforce The German Army grounded a British bombing plane attacking Berlin. The crew of the British airplane did not survive the crash.	view
1942 January 1st	German	Germany, Great Britain, Spitfire	German newspaper Rheinische Landeszeitung	The strongest airforce of the world gave Great Britain a hard timeOn the battle for the Balkan and the East it guaranteed the great success of our infantry. Until 1st of December, the airforce grounded 2346180 BRT volume on ships.	view He 111 behind Spitfire
1942 July 1st	German	Germany, Mölfers, Udet	German newspaper Rheinische Landeszeitung	They died for the freedom of Europ, Ernst Udet, Günther Prien und Werner Mölders	view Mölders Prien Udet
1942 August 11th	German	Germany, Mölfers	German fieldpost letter	describing, that the German Mölders sqadroon grounded at the Soviet front 3511 enemy's aircrafts	view copy of letter (German language)