[MikkOwl]

Really enjoyed them, watched them about 10 hours ago but was too (extremely, excessively) fatigued to tell you that I really appreciated the link.

A tip for all non-German speakers: translate.google.com and enter the link in the first post. Then you can watch each image and get the description in an understandable language to go.

Isn't the Fw 189 'MikkOwl', err, 'Owl', fascinating looking? One of the very earliest images, image 3 perhaps, showing the pilot in his seat, taken from outside on the ground, was the most fascinating. It's like he's surrounded by transparent glass, sitting suspended on something in the air. One sees the linkage going to his rudder pedals in plain view.

Watching the crew's faces, I see these young guys. As young as myself or probably even younger (I am 29). I don't look at them and thin 'they must be old now', instead I see them as they appear in the photos, much like any of us here. I wonder who they were, how old they were, how they were like, what they thought about the war, the Nazi regime, Hitler, the USSR, Ukraine and that city they flew over and took those great photos of (a round square with amazing looking apartment looking buildings - it's a Ukranian city and the square can be found on wikipedia, the KGB headquarters was there before). And what they thought of their role in the war, and the Fw 189 'Wowl'. I also wonder what they experienced, accomplished, and what became of them. Death from being shot down, bombed, accident or captured then death is not an unlikely fate for those young guys. The photos were from when the war was still 'young', 1941 I think it said. With Luftwaffe guys not being able to go home after a tour (as far as I know) they must have kept on flying until either the war ended or they were casualties or captured.. or defected or deserted.