Image Title

:  [Best-known to the English from the German Air Force is the "Lion" Squadron, whose attacks always succeed. Colonel Fuchs, the squadron Commodore, received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross from the Führer.]

Creator

: Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1885-1957 -- Photographer

Depicted Date

: 1940

Medium

: Gelatin silver prints

Item/Page/Plate

: 86

Notes

: A really good close-up view of a Heinkel He-111 bomber, showing the glassed-in nose with the bombardier/nose gunner crouching in front and the pilot's and co-pilot's positions behind him. Ironically, the Commodore of the "Lion" squadron's name translates as "fox". Note 2.) Picture caption: "Von dieser Luftwaffe kannten die Englander am besten das Löwengeschwader, dessen Angriffe immer von Erfolg waren. Oberst Fuchs, der Commodore dieses Geschwaders, erhielt vom Führer das Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes." Note 3.) Title translates German picture caption

Original Source

: From Grossdeutschland im Weltgeschehen. Tagesbildberichte 1940. (Berlin Joh. Kasper & Co. 1942) Braeckow, Ernst, Author.

Source

: Eye on the Reich : German propaganda photographs, 1939-1942. / 1940

Source Description

: 220 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 10.5 x 14.5 cm.

Location

: Mid-Manhattan Library / Picture Collection

Catalog Call Number

: PC EYE 1940

Digital ID

: 3975556

Record ID

: 2063522

Digital Item Published

: 4-12-2012