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Peter
Spoden, night fighter against Royal Airforce during WWII, after
the war trained and became Captain on DC 3 (Dakota's), after
which followed the four engined Lockheed Super Costellation.
The ensuing years saw Captain Spoden accomplished 10 years on
Boeing 707's and later 11 years on Boeing 747's. At the same
time he trained hundreds of commercial pilots and so doing has
contributed conciderably to the present security/safety standards
of the German national carrier "Lufthansa". His memory
is based on documented fact alone. |
He, using diaries, Flight book's (logbook's), relative documents
and privately taken photographs wrote down his thoughts on pre-
and war time Germany for his grandchildren.
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| CONTENTS |
| I |
1921 |
My
family's roots, and how I learned to fly |
| II |
1923 |
The
Occupation of the Ruhr and Hitler's seizure of Power |
| III |
1938 |
The Essen Synagogue burns. My schooldays |
| IV |
1940 |
Summer
1940: the war passes me by |
| V |
1940/41 |
My
time as a recruit. 1st Air Training Battalion, No. 16, Schleswig |
| VI |
1941 |
Air
Warfare School LKS 4, Fürstenfeldbrück, Upper Bavaria |
| VII |
1942 |
C-Schule
17, Pütnitz in Pomerania: Blind-Flying School, Copenhagen |
| VIII |
1943 |
Night-fighter
training and a parachute jump from a Messerschmitt 109 |
| IX |
25.July
1943 |
With
my operational unit. The RAF attack on Hamburg |
| X |
18.Aug.1943 |
The
RAF Attack on Berlin and Peenemünde. My first victory |
| XI |
23.Aug.1943 |
A
Berlin Raid: Escape by Parachute |
| XII |
1943 |
Reichsmarschall
Hermann Goering visits the Night Fighters |
| XIII |
1944 |
Night
Fighters versus four-engined Flying Fortresses by day |
| XIV |
28.April
1944 |
I
nearly land in Switzerland: OberLeutnant Johnen does so |
| XV |
1944 |
As
a Night Fighter in Hungary: Battles with Partisans |
| XVI |
4.Dec.1944 |
The
area-bombing of German Towns |
| XVII |
27.Dec.1944 |
The
Ardennes Offensive. Shot down by German Flak |
| XVIII |
1945 |
Chaos in Germany |
| IXX |
29.April
1945 |
Oberschleissheim
Airfield. Ground fighting. Taken prisoner |
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Reprinted
Version
"Enemy In The Dark"
is available now in Germany.
Direct from author-
please mail:
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in Germany
€ 20.-
with signature and signed foto,
outside Germany, worldwide, the same for € 23.-
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