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Old 06-08-07, 09:08 AM   #199
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Brand new Luftwaffe themed book
"Nächte im Bomberstrom" (Nights in the bomber stream) by Paul Zorner.
Zorner is a Luftwaffe 59 victory nightfigher ace, awarded both Knights cross and Oak leaves.
He started as a transport pilot, mostly over the med, the ill-fated Iraq expedition and Ukraine before volunteering for nightfighter training.
Zorner describes basically his whole Luftwaffe career and postwar soviet captivity, with focus, of course, on the night fighting.
It is sofar the best account I read on how a nightfighter team in a Me 110 actually worked, with a lot of Luftwaffe slang.
For an aviation book it has quite drastic photographs, for example of torn and burned bodies after a RAF bombing raid or of crashed RAF bombers with remains of the crew shattered about, but it is really a decent and very honest personal account.
Zorner researched the identity of most of his victims (via Lostbombers.co.uk), coming to the realization that he personally killed around 350 people in his air victories, which he found quite sobering. On the other hand, he seemed quite motivated and still proud of his work, as every bomber he shot down could not drop its bombload on a german city.
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