This book offers the reader thrilling, action-packed snapshots of life as a Luftwaffe nightfighter pilot.
Suddenly, flash bombs to my right, I instantly dive low to avoid being a direct target. We stay down, close above ground ... before too long life returns in the area and we spot men milling around; Richard and Pitt let them have it, but good. We're down to our last bit of ammunition. Some Russians have frozen in fear, others lift their arm, others still lie flat on the ground. Not a single one remembers to get up and fire.'
On 21 June 1941, assigned to Luftwaffe bomber wing Kampfgeschwader 53, the 23-year-old Arnold D
