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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1955)
npsnypejpi 4-Sec 2-$tt$mn, Salem, Ore.; Friday, Jvne 3, IMS New German Luftwaffe Will Add Over 1,000 Modern Jets to NATO Forces k (Editor's Note: It.kas bee 10 -'art since Nazi warpUnet Screamed eat of the skies la merci es attacks Germy'i World War II enemies. Today, with West Germany allied with NATO, a aew Luftwaffe is being formed to fight or freedom instead of tyranny, here's a report oa how it will be organized.) v ' By GEORGE BOULTWOOD . BONN,. Germany Ml A new German air force is taking shape on paper as this country proceeds 9,500 Found On Suspected Bank Robber LAS VEGAS UP) A suspect in an $86,707 Jacksonville. Fla., bank robbery May 20 had (9.S00 in his -r"-tf:;ion when he was arrested Thursday In a parking lot of a swar; oinp resort hotel-casino, the TBI said. The suspect. Alton D. Ellis, 41, Clearwater, Fla., insurance sales man, was taken into custody with out incident by FBI agents and Sheriffs Sets, Noble Witcher and Robert Griffinr The sheriffs office said Ellis had been the subject of a search for several hours before he was finally located in the parking lot His arrest followed a tip that he had been seen in the vicinity. Ellis was the second suspect to be arrested in connection with the robbery. Two other men are still sought by the FBI. A Clearwater diswasher suspect ed of involvement in the robbery jal The First National Bank of Jacksonville was arrested earlier. Four bandits staged the holdup after kidnaping a bank official and forcing him to open the bank. The robbery was staged while two of the four gunmen held the bank of ficial's wife and two small daught ers hostage in their home. Finn Twins Tell of 'Forced Feeding By Goon Squad' SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (UP) The attorney for the imprisoned Finn twins charged Thursday that the two were "spread-eagled" on their hospital beds by guards he called "the goon squad," in order to force them to take food. Joseph Scott, Los Angeles, inter viewed the twins, George and Charles Finn, at the Federal Med ical Center here for about an hour Thursday. . Afterwards he told reporters 'that the twins told him that every morning guards came to their beds and strapped their wrists and ankles with "leather collars." If they refuse to eat, "someone sits onHheir chests and they are fed forcibly," he said. . Scott said he was told the brothers, under one-year sentences for interfering with a Los Angeles federal officer, often are involved in "incidents" with the guards. "The big heavy jailers subdue them and completely overpower them in spite of their resistance," he said. with plans to put more than a thousand modern Jets in the air in support of its NATO army. But West Germany's air force won't be called Luftwaffe. And it won't have any strategic bombers. Tentatively named the Luftstreit- kraefte (which, 'literally translated, means air-fight-power, as contrast ed with Luftwaffe, or air-weapon the new force will include some 1.326 planes. Chancellor" Konrad Adenauer agreed in signing the Paris rearmament treaties that it would be confined to an army sup port role. Voluntarily Renounced Long range bombers, along with atomic, bacteriological and chemi cal weapons, were voluntarily re nounced by the federal republic. The new air force will .be or ganized like this: Eight 75-plane squadrons of fighters. Six 75-plane squadrons of fighUr- bombers. Two 36-plane squadrons of all weather fighters. Two 54-plane reconnaissance squadrons. . Two 48-plane transport squad rons. Jet Transport All except the transports are ex pected to be jets. The types of planes to be used have not yet been finally chosen. It will depend largely on what deals the Germans can make with their allies, par ticularly the United States, over delivery of aircraft. The whole question of the pro gram of military assistance to the new German armed forces, has yet to be worked out in detail. German officials who have been planning the air force for the past four years are determined to get the best and most modern planes As fighters they are thinking f either British Hawker Hunters, now being produced in quantity for NATO countries, or the battle proved American Sabres. These two types are the basis of the NATO forces with which the Germans will be operating. . Industry Banned All the planes initially will have to come from abroad. The German aircraft industry is nonexistent. Making of planes even experi mental aeronautic research was prohibited throughout the 10-year occupation by the Allies. Some former manufacturers, like joined together in an association! to promote restoration of the in dustry. But there is not a single machine tool or a yard of factory space in existence. It will be years before German-made planes come off the production line. Some experts believe a start will be made by turning out parts for existing Allied types of aircraft un der license. There will be about 80,000 men all volunteers in the air force, in cluding about 2.000 pilots. Volunteers Offer Enough volunteers to fly the planes have already come forward. Only a few hundred will be veter ans of World War II. The survivors of the once-mighty Luftwaffe are either too old, unfit or unwilling to serve again. Planners" expect difficulty in finding enough men for ground technical services. They will have to compete with booming German industry to attract technicians into the service. It will be at least six months before the rates of pay and condi tions of service are known. It will take Parliament that long tp ap prove the mass of legislation nec essary to set up the armed forces. The top officers cannot be- ap pointed until they have been ap proved by a special personnel com mission consisting of members of parliament and prominent public figures. That is to ensure that men with Nazi records do not get commands. Staff Officers at Bona Top planer is Werner Panitzkl, 43. He joined the German army in 1929 and switched to the Luftwaffe i in 1935. He has been a staff officer in the Bonn Defense Commission since 1952. There' are not too many exper ienced men to choose from as leaders. The Luftwaffe lost 101 gen erals in World War II, of whom 11 committed suicide. It lost both its former commanders-in-chief that way. Reich Mar-, shal Hermann Goering poisoned himself in his Nuernberg cell to avoid being hanged for war crimes. In the last crazy days in his underground shelter in Russian surrounded Berlin, the demented Hitler sacked Goering for treach ery and appointed Field Marshal Ritter von Greim in his place. He, too, took his own life when Ger many capitulated. There will be no commander-in- chief of the new air force. Instead, an inspector-general will be , ap pointed with the titular top com mand of all the services, in the hands of a civilian either the president or the chancellor. Actual operational command of the Luftstreitkraefte Is expected to be divided between two Allied tac tical air forces now in Germany. In the south it will be exercised by Fourth Allied Tactical Air Force, an American-Canadian out fit, and in the north by the Second ATAF,-consisting of British, Bel gian and Dutch units. Higher command of these forma tions is by Central Forces Europe at Fontainbleau, which is in turn under control of Supreme Head quarters Allied Forces Europe (SHAPE) in Paris. ! All the German pilots will be obliged to learn English, the com mon language of NATO air forces. The new inspector-general will have a tremendous task in training men absolutely from scratch. The Germans failed to get jets into the air in any significant numbers in World War II. . . They produced the Messer schmitt 163, but it could stay only seven minutes in the air. The al lies put this plane out of action when they bombed the only plant producing an important comjxra ent of its special fuel. Goering's Luftwaffe, once the pride of the nation, was unable to interfere seriously with the Allied landings in Normandy in 1944 and take the from then until the end of the war squadrons. the Allies had overwhelming air superiority. Now the Germans will depend heavily on the Allies to train their new forces. They will have to learn tricks undreamed of in the last war and master the controls of supersonic jets. All men in the Luftstreitkraefte will have an initial three months of infantry training. Then pilots will be sent to Allied- training i schools in Germany, the United States and Britain. Ground staffs also will be helped by the Allies to learn how to maintenance their planes. 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