july 2016 AH 37
HEINKEL PRODUCED ONE OF THE MOST
INNOVATIVE NIGHT FIGHTERS OF WORLD
WAR II, BUT NAZI BUREAUCRATS REPEATEDLY
SHOT IT DOWN BY STEPHAN WILKINSON
NIGHT OWL
NOCTURNAL PREDATOR
An He-219 bristling with radar
antennas finds a victim —an
Avro Lancaster—in the night
skies over Germany, in Mark
Postlethwaite’s illustration.