Title:DER KAMPFFLIEGER UND DIE GEGNERISCHE NACHTJAGD [Main Title]
Film Number:GWY 1620
Other titles:THE PILOT AND ENEMY NIGHTFIGHTING [Translation]
Summary: A silent Luftwaffe instructional film for bomber crews using animation and explanatory inter-titles to demonstrate techniques of avoiding enemy radar and night fighters.
Description: START 00:00:00 The film begins with a pre-title official warning that this film is for military use only, the film's sponsor and title and another warning banning its unauthorised screening. The film begins by showing the British network of land-based radar stations, supplemented by ship-borne (?) radar, and how it directs its fighters onto incoming Luftwaffe bomber formations with the help of ground control stations.
00:04:30 Using aircraft animations depicting Junkers Ju 88 bombers, the film demonstrates methods of avoiding ground-based radar such as flying low over the sea or along a valley. The British can also be deceived as to the true strength of an approaching Luftwaffe bomber formation by flying a single aircraft at a normal altitude whilst keeping the rest at a height below enemy radar cover.
00:06:53 The film also explains how an enemy ground control station guides a night-fighter to within a short distance of a German bomber, at which point its own airborne radar can take over and direct it to its target. By these means, the enemy can deploy more than one night-fighter against a single Luftwaffe bomber. A typical enemy method of closing in for the kill from behind is first illustrated before two methods of losing an enemy night-fighter with on-board radar - making a sharp turn or a steep dive - to avoid the enemy radar's narrow beam.
END 00:09:46
Alternative Title:THE PILOT AND ENEMY NIGHTFIGHTING [Translation]
Production Details: Oberkommando der Luftwaffe (Production sponsor)
Filmgruppe des General der Flieger Ausbildung (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords: strategy, German air (object name)
training, German air - specialist: radar avoidance (object name)
training, German air - combat: bomber (object name)
Animation (concept)
Instruction (concept)
Aerial Warfare (theme)
German Air Force 1939-1945 (theme)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Silent
Soundtrack language: None
Title language: German
Technical Details: Format: 16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 368 ft; Running time: 9 mins 46 secs
