Footage of Maj Helmut Lent on nightfighter operations on Internet

[Hans Nauta]

Hi Rob and Nokose,

Rob, thanks for your reaction and yes, the footage on wochenschau-archiv.de is well known to me. Nevertheless a useful list for other members of this comminity!

Nokose, thanks also for your comments, I'll check whether the footage is amongst de DVD content.

Best regards,
Hans Nauta

[andrek]

Yes, the footage with Lent is pure fun to me. My grandfather was part of this movie. He told me that they got some sort of theatre instruction from the Propaganda men who had heavy problems filming in darkness. The Bf110 seen in the clip was standing at the Rollfeld and it was snowing that night. The man inside the Bf110 is Lent. There is also a scene were the Bf110 is firing. My grandpa said, that this was the idea of a camera man. The ground crew turned the maschine and Lent himself fired some rounds in the night. Today absolutely impossible.