Iron Cross Magazine Issue 23 Vorige editie

THE HEUSCHRECKE
Our regular expert on German armour of WW2 examines how the Wehrmacht attempted to solve the requirement for effective mobile artillery with the Heuschrecke and presents some fascinating and previously unpublished photographs.
ON THE RUN
When a Heinkel 111 was shot down over England one night in July 1940, its crew parachuted to safety and inevitable captivity. However, as Andy Saunders reveals, three of the crew went on the run and had some extraordinary adventures before being caught.
INDIRECT FIRING DEVICES
As the war in the east ground on relentlessly after the launch of Barbarossa in 1941, a new menace in the war there emerged: snipers. The Wehrmacht turned a WW1 solution which allowed rifles to be fired from cover without exposing riflemen to danger.
A LAST APPEAL TO REASON
With the fall of France in 1940, only Britain stood in the way of total victory and Hitler ordered preparations for invasion: Operation Sealion. First, Hitler made one last appeal to Britain for ‘reason’. Martin Mace tells the story, presenting some unique photographs.
MAPPING BARBAROSSA
How Germany tracked its progress along with Red Army dispositions during the ultimately doomed invasion of the Soviet Union is told by Kevin M Boylan who outlines the story of the large-scale daily situation maps produced by the Wehrmacht.
MEIN SOHN
When the Luftwaffe launched two heavy tip-and-run raids against Hastings and Bournemouth in May 1943, they were attacks that saw heavy military and civilian casualties on the ground and losses to German units involved in that day’s operations.
A PROVEN PROWESS
Not all Luftwaffe fighter aces became household names in Germany. Regular Iron Cross contributor, Chris Goss, examines the life and death of one such fighter pilot who served from the Battle of France through to his death over Northern Europe in 1944.