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Many pages have small pen & ink illustrations of German and British military airplanes accompanying the text, and there is a section of seven pages of rare Luftwaffe Staffelabzeichen or squadron insignia.

Das sind unsere Flieger is subtitled “Experiences and Heroic Deeds by our Pilots in the Battle against England”. The 5-1/2 x 8-3/8 inch, 288-page linen hardcover book contains war correspondent stories and reports assembled by Luftwaffe Kriegsberichter Sonderführer Walter Zuerl and uncommon photos from his archive. The text pages are printed on thick, good quality paper and the photos are all printed on sections of nice glossy paper.

This fine Second Edition example comes with its original, rather worn, dust jacket featuring a Theo Matejko illustration

There are stories about Luftwaffe reconnaissance flights, battling the RAF above the English Channel, photographing the Maginot Line from the air, Luftwaffe pilots on alert, the Luftwaffe above the Shetland Islands and the mouth of the River Thames, barrage balloons, British attacks against the Luftwaffe, English reconnaissance planes shot down over the Dutch coast, heroic Luftwaffe pilots and their crews, bombing French and Belgian airports, rescuing pilots from the North Sea, bombing British positions in Norway, etc., etc.

Photos show airplanes such as the Messerschmitt Me 109, Fieseler Storch, Stukas, Dornier 18 and Do 215, Ju 87, Heinkel He 111 and He 113, Arado Ar 196, Junkers, Nazi paratroopers at Eben Emael, the cockpit view during a bomb attack, FLAK search lights, destroyed English naval vessels and RAF airplanes, and even a rare photo of a Fieseler Storch flying over a gigantic German “88” FLAK gun!

Published by Curt Pechstein Verlag of Munich, this is a Second Edition (printing 11 - 40.000) of Das sind unsere Flieger with original Third Reich dust jacket. The binding is very tight. The pages are clean but there is off-set on the insignia pages as shown in our pictures above. No odor.