Translation of Text in the photo

On 9 May 1943 Pilot Herbert Schmidt and Wireless Operator Paul Rosenberger in the German
Nightfighter JU 88R-1 DV + EV sent a distress signal over the Skagerak.

The Germans never found any trace of plane or crew, because Schmidt and Rosenberger
had fled to England where they gave detailed information to the Allied forces about radars,
radio communication and more of the German defence at night.

The new intelligence gave the British a lead in the race in the air war. In the night between
27 and 28 July 1943 the RAF was able to attack Hamburg with 787 heavy bombers.

The result was awesome. A heat wave for weeks had created the perfect conditions for a
big fire, and the bombing was carried out perfectly.

Soon an area of 13 square kilometres was ablaze, and a lethal firestorm sucked air and oxygen
from large areas. 40,000 inhabitants of the city were killed. Most of them suffocated through
lack of oxygen in the air-raid shelters while the firestorm was raging with the strength of a
hurricane above them.

In the following days 1,2 million people fled out of Hamburg, about 2/3 of the population of the city.

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In the summer of 1943 the British became able to destroy the German radar observations
with “Windows” – strips of tin foil dropped from bombers.