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1944
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SEPTEMBER 14TH, 1944 FLIGHT 287 Behind the Lines Killed GOERING'S nephew, Lt. Helmut Goering, a Luftwaffe fighter pilot, is reported by the German News Agency to have been killed in an air battle over Normandy. Retired THE head of the General Staff of Mussolini's air force, Gen. Tessari, has been relieved of his post and placed on the retired list. Decorated NO. 564 on the list of members of Ger man armed forces decorated with the Oak Leaves to the Knights' Cross In signia ot the Iron Cross is Gen. Eugen Meindl, commanding General of a para chute corps, whose award was announced a few days ago from the Fuehrer's H.Q. Post-war Deal A PATENT for an aircraft engine silencer held by Enrico Nizzoli, of Treviso, has been sold to Germany. The agreement, concluded last June, contains a clause providing for the payment of 30 million Italian lire six months after the end of the war. B-29 Expected Research T HE German High Com mand has been devoting much attention to the new American Boeing B-29," said the German News Agency. It states:— '' Competent Luftwaffe de partments have been in constant touch with Japanese military quarters, exchanging data and suggestions. Valuable know ledge regarding the defence against these super-bombers has thus been gathered." Concluding on an optimistic note, the statement said that '' if the super-forts now put in an appearance on the European theatre, the German Command would neither be caught unaware nor confronted with insuperable problems." What They Say '' HPHE development towards totality is •i- in fact our strongest and, because it cannot be imitated, our very own and unique weapon." » * # "When all our new weapons are fully employed, our enemy will find himself in a position which is like that of a man who owns the most modern attacking air craft in the world, while his opponent simply congeals the air, or like that of an admiral without water for his fleet." (German Telegraph Service for Forces papers.) » . ..«, It is stated in an authoritative German quarter that new German weapons based on quite different principles are already in» preparation so that theoretically it would be possible to make use of new weapons at once. But if we dealt out our trumps too soon, their effectiveness would be substantially diminished. In fact, it is theoretically possible that if we did that. Service and Industrial News from the Inside of Axis and Enemy' occupied Countries then by the time they were due to deal their effective blow the enemy would have counter-weapons ready to use against them, thus reducing their strik ing power. The U-boat war taught us that the hour when a new method of at tack goes into use is the hour of the birth of a new counter weapon. (From em article in a German paper.) T.T.T. " '"PEL til ti "—count up to ten—is the -*- latest Norwegian slogan against the Germans. The underground press reports that TTT is the response of Norwegian workers drafted for the German arma ments industry in Germany and in the occupied countries to- Hitler's call for a super-total war effort. Fritt Land, an underground paper, has asked prisoners somewhere in Norway- why sabotage is so successful. They answer: "Tel til ti"—this is sabotage that cannot be seen or punished. chromium from Turkey, wolfram from Spain, and the difficulties in getting sup plies from Sweden are a serious predica ment'to the smooth progress , of Dr. Goebbels' super-total mobilisation. —and Propaganda It is significant that the German News Agency saw it necessary to issue this re assuring statement pretending that every thing is in order: " It is announced that the German heavy industries have at their disposal sufficient quantities of raw material for the manufacture of iron and steel products to cover the requirements of the armaments industry for a long time. Adequate supplies of ore are avail able, as well as of •chromium, manganese, wolfram, and other steel alloys, so that the continued production of all kinds of steel is assured. The coal, coke, and foundries available are sufficient to allow for the increased production which will result from the employment of tremen dous reserves of labour." Moth and Gas BOMB and work harassed Hausfrauen, of Essen, hurried last week to their wardrobes obediently following yet an other ukas of the leaders to shake and dust their gas masks. For the German authorities seem to be showing increasing in terest in gas. Following the recent distribution of gas masks to different age groups of the civilian population, including babies, an Essen newspaper pub lished instructions for their storage and protection. Gas masks kept in damp places—the instructions said—are inclined to become clogged. They should be kept in dry places, but not in wardrobes containing anti-moth powder as the filter sucks up the anti-moth gases and thus wears out. Long-range fuel tanks jettisoned by Japanese fighters or fighter-bombers in the Pacific area. They are made of wood and are very vulnerable to o.5in. machine-gun bullets. Raw Material Facts—-. ALTHOUGH some time may elapse before the gap is actually felt, the loss of war materials sustained by Ger many by the collapse of Rumania and the liberation of France is a severe blow to the German war industry and to her aircraft production in particular. Rumania supplied one-third of Ger many's total fuel oil needs and delivered annually about 25,000 tons of magnesium ore or 15 per cent, of total German sup plies. France produced 800,000 tons of bauxite per annum and 15,000 tons of aluminium metal. In addition, even in 1943, the amount of steel produced in France amounted to 3,000,000 tons, and a considerable proportion of this was used by Germany. Perhaps less known but equally important is the fact that the French automotive industry supplied as much as 15 per cent, of German needs in cars and other vehicles. To round off the picture, the loss of Research THE Luftfahrt-Medizin pub lished the results of invest i gations conducted by several German scientists in the effects of sudden interruption of oxygen supply during parachute descents from high altitudes. * "In altitudes over 30,000 ft."—it is said—" only a little time elapses between the interruption of oxygen breathing and illness. During a descent the parachute, therefore, should not open before an alti tude of about 18,000ft. is reached. Thanks to the counter-action of the air, resistance of which increases as the drop ping body gathers speed, velocity of fall after a few seconds remains almost un changed. . " Descending from between 30,000- 33,000ft. with the parachute closed, a man will reach an altitude of 18,oooft. in approximately 16 sec. For this period the organism will stand up to the enormous speed of approximately 80 m. per second. With an open parachute, 18,oooft is reached only after 7 min., during which period serious illness might develop. Hence—-it is concluded—the period of descent must be reduced." This is no new discovery!
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