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1944
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SEPTEMBER 7TH, 1944 FLIGHT 205 PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OR PUBLIC HIRE? a Government-sponsored affair and be almost as " official " as the Air Force itself—but run, I trust, at rather less cost to the taxpayer. That miserable fellow might even see a profit—thus taking money out of one pocket in order to put it in another. Yes, maybe the Government had better control my firm, even if we obstinately refuse to let the Civil Service actually run it. The whole affair would be just a little too big and important to be in the hands of a few financiers—and I afn afraid that the something-for-very-little breed will not be entirely extinct for quite a few generations. Well, there it is. Whether Government- or Big-Business- owned is really of small importance so long as the hirers are pleased and get good value for money. All I can say again is that there will be no shortage of customers if it is started reasonably soon after the end of the war, and that the idea should be very much more pleasing to the powers- that-be than any laissez-faire muddle of general and hap hazard ownership. I look forward to a free wtek-end with the successor of the Moth Minor or Monarch as my fee for producing the suggestion and for reminding the prospective shareholders that the customers are waiting with their money actually in their hands. INDICATOR. Behind the Lines Service and Industrial News from the Inside of Axis and "Enemy^occupied Countries Jap Chief THE new chief of the Japanese Army Air Force is Lt. Gen. Sugawara, who succeeded Gen. Yun Ushiroku during the recent reshuffle of the 'Japanese Govern ment. Rescue TWO hundred and fifty-two enemy air men, says a German statement, have been saved during 1943 by the Ger man Air-Sea Rescue Service. Journey's End COUNT VON BEROLDNINGEN, chief of the Lisbon branch of the Luft hansa, is back in Lisbon again after leaving on the last passenger aircraft last week * and signing himself on as a J' stewards'1 • He was too late. The Maquis and the Americans were already then dominating the territory between Portugal and •pouthern Germany, and at Barcelona the *L-trfthansa aircraft had to turn back. The count arrived back at the starting point of his journey discontented, this time having signed himself on as "aero nautical engineer." Luftwaffe Aces "PRESCRIBED by the German Telegraph -L' Agency as the '' best fighter pilot in the world," Lt. Erich Hartmann, a Luft waffe squadron leader, and holder of the Oak Leaves with Swords, is credited with 301 victories. Twenty-two years of age, Hartmann is a son of a Wuerttem- berg doctor, was an ardent member of the Hitler youth and spent some years in China. In 1940 he joined the Luft waffe and has been on operational ser vice for almost two years. He received the Knights Cross to the Iron Cross after" having been credited with 146 victories, and the Swords Insignia after 202 air victories. Recently he became the eighth German fighter pilot and the tenth member of the Luftwaffe to receive the Diamonds, the highest German decora tion for gallantry, following Moedlers, Galland. Marseille, Gollob, Novotnv and the night-fighter pilot Lent. Hartmann is now serving on the Russian front. . The four most successful German fighter pilots in the Arctic theatre of war are said to be Oak Leaves holder Major Ehrler, Knights Cross holder Lt. Dorr, 2nd Lts. Schick and Nord. In announc ing their names, the German News Agency says that they displayed great experience "in fighting against a fre quently superior enemy." Balance ACCORDING to an official Rumanian statement, 14,000 buildings were destroyed by air attacks on Rumanian territory between April 4th and May 8th. Hit A TOKYO radio report picked up in New York made an appeal to workers for intreased aircraft production. "China-based aircraft have disturbed our war industries by raiding our home land," the announcer said. Decorated GENERAL DER FLIEGER MAXI MILIAN RITTER VON POHL, commander of the Luftwaffe in Central Italy, was awarded the Knights Insignia to the Iron Cross. Col. Gen. Ritter von Greim, C.-in-C. of an air fleet, received the Oak leaves with Swords, and General Kurt Pflugbeil, C.-in-C. of an air fleet, the Oak Leaves Insignia. Berlin Picture HERMAN MAARTENSSON, a Swede, who conducted an orchestra in the Europahaus in Berlin, and experienced all the large-scale attacks, has now leturned to Sweden and said in an inter view with the Svenska Dagbladet: "At present the main desire of Berliners is: * Never mind if the food is worse; the main thing is that we are allowed to sleep in peace.' "Berlin factories in the outlying dis tricts suffered severe damage; for in stance, the Erkner works in Oranienburg suffered badly in the last daylight attack. The Oranienburg aircraft factories are still working, but the Erkner ball-bearing factories have practically closed down, and it will be a long time before they are usable. Siemensstadt and some other industrial suburbs also suffered badly The residential area in North Berlin between the Schonhauser Allee and Gesundbrunnen, which has no industries, is practically undamaged. " As for Siimmung, everyone hopes toi an improvement in the situation and an early end to the war—some even say irrespective of how the war ends. In particular, veterans from the last war desire an early peace or at least an end of the bombing so that they can sleep. The Hitler Youth is still happy and con fident, and believes in victory and the righteousness of the German cause." ' Maartensson has also been to western Germany, where damage is even greatei Verboten PRIVATE glider flying was banned under an order issued by -Speei, German Armaments Minister, and the lead keels and lead ballasts of all gliders in Germany were requisitioned. All owners of gliders must report to the authorities, and failure to do so in volves the complete dismantling ot machines, it was announced. Arrange ments have been made for a vast resump tion of peacetime gliding in Germany. Me 209 ACCORDING to a neutral report, a new development of the Me 100. designated Me 209, is powered by a new 12-cylinder liquid-cooled in-line engine, said to be either a Daimler-Ben?, ot a Junkers Jumo 213. The aircraft is said to be equipped with several alternative armaments, one consisting of a 30 mm. cannon firing through the airscrew hub and two 13 mm. M.G.s mounted beneath the engine and synchronised to fire through the airscrew discs. Another version is reported to have two 30 mm. cannons in the wings and one 20 mm. cannon firing through the. airscrew hub, whilst yet another consists of two 30 mm. cannons in the wings and two 13 mm. M.G.s syn chrcnised to fire through the airscrew discs Incidentally, Capt. Robert S. John, son, of the U.S.A.A., is credited with having shot down several of the Me 209s.
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