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3io FLIGHT MARCH 25TH, 1943 Behind the Lines Luftwaffe Mercenaries T ATEST addition to the Luftwaffe re--L' cruits are members of the Dutch Fascist organisation affiliated to the NaziN.S.K.K.. According to Axis sources, 300 members of the " Motorgruppe Luft-waffe van liet N.S.K.K.," who have just completed a course of training in Bel-gium were sworn in prior to tljeir joining up. New Alloy A GERMAN physicist, Prof, 'justi, isreported to have produced a new type of light-metal alloy. The new com-pound is said to be an excellent con- ductor of electricity. Decorations /"^ENERAL KREYSING, formerly avJ Commander of a Luft-Lande-Korps (Air Landing Corps) and lately in- com-mand of a mixed "battle group," re- ceived the Oak Leaves to the Iron Crossfor the defence of an advanced airfield in Russia. Among recent recipients of the Knights'Insignia to the Iron Cross are the names of the following Luftwaffe men: Col..Otto Lutz-Foerster, an "old-timer," who served with the Richthofen Squad-ron in the last war, and afterwards played an active role in the differentFascist militant organisations (Frei Korps) and in the notorious " KapPutch." Lately he served on the Rus- sian front as air transport leader, andwas responsible for air-borne supplies in ' the Stalingrad sector. Simultaneouslywith his award Col. Foerster was placed on the retired list. Col. Wilhelm Wolff, commander of aflak regiment in the Stalingrad sector, Capt. Lamprecht, acting commander ofa light flak group, and N.C.O* Bret- schneider, Lt. Wilhelm Doering, ob-server, Oberleutnant Glaeser, leader of a Stuka unit, and N.C.O. Werner Weih-rauch, receive the same decoration. Weihrauch has been previously men-tioned for the destruction of gun posi- tions in Fort Stalin at Sevastopol.Finally, there are Capt. Eduard Garten- feld. leader of a reconnaissance unit, and 2/Lt. Goebel, a Stuka pilotwho is credited with sinking 50,000 tons of merchant shipping and with damagingthe cruiser Coventry, "Aces" and Losses '"PHE German Press also announces the-*- names of outstanding Luftwaffe members on the Tunisian front: Capt.Baer, holder cf the Oakx Leaves with Swords, is credited with his 154th sic!)victory for shooting down a Boston on February 4th, and "badly damaging afour-engined bomber whose rear gunner's post was completely shot away." Capt.Uebben is credited with his 103rd victory on the same occasion, and Lt. Buchlin-gen and Oberleutnant Riidorffer are said to have brought down recently five Spit-fires escorting Bostons. Among Luftwaffe losses special men- Service and Industrial News from the Inside of Axis and Enemy Occupied Countries tion is made of Lt. Georg Schentke, afighter pilot, credited with 80 victories, who was shot down on the Russian front,and of Capt. Ludwig Becker, holder of the Knights' Insignia to the Iron Cross,an ace night fighter pilot and -com- mander of a night fighter unit, who issaid to have brought down 46 aircraft. German Savings— IN a report published by the federationof the German aircraft industry, it is stated that r,000,000 working hours have been saved in the industry as a result of suggestions received from workers and employees. Twenty-six "thousand pro- posals have been accepted out of a total of 60,000 put forward. The report adds that, by carrying out these suggestions, substantial savings in material have been achieved, such as MIGRATION SOUTH : The hard-pressed Luftwaffe is forced to employ large numbers of Ju 52s to transport reinforcements to Tunisia. considerable amounts of steel, mag-nesium, copper, chrome and over 1,000 tons of aluminium. A special schemefacilitating the transmission of construc- tive suggestions from the workers appearsto be in operation throughout the in- dustry. — And Ideas ACCORDING to neutral reports, anexhibition was recently opened in Switzerland with a predominantly dis- played air section. Among these exhibits are German projects for new types of ultra-modern civil aircraft said to be designed by leading German experts and • claiming new characteristics and per- formances. German A.R.P. APART from the destruction of Ger-man productive centres, the intensi- fied R.A.F. bombing has produced a flood of A.R.P. orders, regulations, warnings, etc. It seems that the Germans, while rigidly enforcing the black-out and the "take-cover" rules, have omitted • to educate the public in other precautions. This fact emerges from the new instruc- tions issued almost daily. An interesting instruction published recently in Austria orders all householders to provide clearly marked openings in the walls of cellars leading to the next house. These open- ings are said to be " of great importance to the safety of the popukition." Another instruction published in Western Germany orders that in- cendiaries must be dealt with imme- diately. "As they may include a stick, of incendiary bombs with an explosive cap (the order says), care must be taken to fight them from cover, viz., from behind walls, pillars, etc. . Wood and iron shields hitherto employed do not accord adequate protection. The jet of the stirrup pump has a range of 22ft., so that at least the area round the bomb can be damped and an extensive fire pre- vented. Five minutes have to elapse after the fall of the incendiary before it can b.e assumed that no further detona- tion will occur, and only then can one deal with the incendiary at close quarters." Fireworks THE Hamburger Fremdenblalt of the3rd inst., while cautiously avoiding any detailed description of the R.A.F. raid on Hamburg, expresses its surprise at the new type of flares used by the R.A.F. "The Tommies," it says, "dropped new types of flares which are apparently composed of a multitude of small ones and which fell from the sky like illuminated Christmas trees and radiated powerful red, yellow and green lights." Jap Planning IT is reported from Tokyo that a" Southern Resources Scientific Insti- tute " has been formed for the purpose ofpreparing a survey of natural resources of the Southern regions occupied byJapan. The Institute, which is attached to the Imperial University at Taihoku,the capital of Taiwan (Japanese name for Formosa), is also to draw up a planfor the scientific utilisation of these resources for the Japanese war industry.
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