Bent & broken carcasses of the Luftwaffe’s former might are all that remain at this German airfield in the late Spring of 1945. The Luftwaffe’s demise, like bankruptcy, happened in two ways: gradually, then suddenly. Staggering losses had thinned the once all-powerful German Air Force’s pilot ranks, and then the day came when there simply was no more gas.
Allied aircraft had swept the skies clean.
The men seen clambering over the Luftwaffe’s field of shattered dreams are newly liberated Allied prisoners of war.
The Jive Bomber 