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1942
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5o8 FLIGHT MAY 2IST, 1942 BEHIND THE LINES Service and Industrial News from the Inside of Axis and Enemy-occupied Countries Japan's Loss JAPANESE sources report that Lt. Cdr. Masso Asahi, of the Japanese Naval Air Arm, was killed in an action during the attack on Surabaya. The report mentions that Asahi, who had dis tinguished himself in the fighting in China and in operations against Borneo, Java and the Philippines, was Japan's most successful naval pilot The Golden Banner THE methods applied by the Germans to increase their war production vary from patriotic appeals to the ruthless slave driving of workers. But an inter esting feature is the element of com petition introduced by the Nazi Govern ment to stir up the production of war material Industrial firms which have fulfilled their production programme and have organised a maximum of output receive a decoration of the "Golden Banner." This—as the Germans explain it—is a substitute for the incentive of free competition in peacetime. About 70 firms have been recently awarded this decoration. But to what extent this competition is based on slave driving, unreasonably long hours, and the concomitant drop in health standards of workers is revealed in Nazi medical reports. In one arma ment factory the works physician had 25,000 cases under his care in one year. Such is the price of the "Golden Banner." Decorations and Losses CAPT. JOACHIM MUENCHEBEEG. bearer of the Knight's Insignia to the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, has been awarded, by the Duce, the Italian " Gold Medal for Bravery," in connection with the recent German attacks on Malta Lieut. Rieger, " the most prominent exponent of the Stuka weapon." who is said to have participated in night attacks against the Thames Estuary and in N. Africa, was shot down by the Russians over Naro-Fominsk and has been posthumously awarded the same decora tion. Lt. F. Platzer, com mander of a Stuka squadron, has been posthumously awarded the Knight's Insignia to the Iron Cross for services on the Russian front. Among others the Luft waffe also lost two of their outstanding officers: Lt Meyer, pilot in a destroyer (Zerstorer) Squadron and bearer of high decorations, who is said to have been very successful" in France, the Balkans, and in raids over this country, and Capt. W. Spiess, com mander of a destroyer squadron, both killed in action in Russia. Power from Wind IN a lecture recently given to the Foreign and Colonial research group ot the V.D.I. (Association of German Engineers) some interesting details were re vealed of the current research on the exploitation of the wind energy for in dustrial purposes. The lecturer stated that the shores and hilltops of Central Germany favoured the establishment of special wind power plants. Theoretically only a maximum of 60 per cent, of the total wind energy can be made use of, but in practice this per centage is even lower. In Central Ger many small wind energy plants of to to 100 kw. output are estimated to keep their full efficiency for 2,000 hours per annum, while large plants of 1,000 kw. maintained their output for 2,500 to 3,000 hours per annum. While the mechanical equipment of large wind energy plants is still a matter of research, German firms are building small plants for mass production. CONDOR CLOSE-UP : Bombing-up one of the notorious Atlantic raiders. Note the fan-shaped flame dampers at the rear of the engine cowling. Models in France IT is reported from France that the construction of aircraft models is to be introduced as a compulsory subject on the curriculum of all French schools. For this purpose a number of school teachers receive special training at a course held now at Aix (in the Provence Department). Axis Aluminium THE bauxite industry in Croatia suf fered substantially during the last two years because ot the acute shortage of transport facilities. The output of the Adria Bauxite and Mining Co. in 1940 1 m THE JUNKERS JU 88 : One of the mainstays of the Luftwaffe, this machine is used as precision bomber, long-range bomber, dive-bomber and night-fighter. amounted to 274.195 tons compared wit^ 440,000 tons in 1938 This reduction the Yugoslav production is responsible for the increased efforts to expand the production of bauxite and aluminium in Italy. The Italian Montecatini Co. has completed the extension of their alu mina plant in Porto Marghera In Mori and Bozen (Southern Tyrol) aluminium plants are being established. It is further reported that this company is engaged on the construction of a plant for the production of artificial cryolite and * a new aluminium refining plant. 1 J 1 Search of Fuel DIRECTED by German experts, strenuous efforts are being made in Estonia to develop a process of utilising butane gas for the production of aviation fuel. It is reported that these reseafiohes have now been successfully completed and that a plant for the production of the new aviation fuel has been erected by the " Anio Hydrogenation Company." The company is to start production of the new fuel in the near future.
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