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...Army had learned which German scientists were important, and where most might be found. With each wave of U.S. troops, and sometimes ahead of advance units, went skilled scientists-hunters. The Army told who some of these scientists were, and where they were working: Fort Bliss, Tex. and Dayton, Ohio...
Dessau to Dayton. There were other prizes. When the Red Army crunched toward Berlin in April 1945, Dr. Anselm Franz, handsome, Austrian-born and 46, was head of research and development at the great Junkers plant which produced the 0-4 jet engine at Dessau in what is now the Russian zone. Like Braun, he called his top men together. Their unanimous decision: "We want with the West...
...Franz and 87 other German air scientists are now living in a former National Youth Administration camp near Wright Field at Dayton, brain center of U.S. Army air power. Some of their names were still secret, but among them are men like 1) thin, nervous Dr. Alexander Lippisch, butterfly collector, landscape painter, lute player, and designer of the Messerschmitt 163 rocket plane, 2) blond, ruddy Dr. Hans Heinrich, inventor of the ribbon parachute, 3) Russian-born Dr. Eugen Ryschkewitsch, world authority on heat-resisting ceramics. Other new workers at Wright Field: German aerodynamicists, wind-tunnel men, instrument men and experts...
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...cloak-&-dagger manner and his name (his mother merely liked the name Victor, had no thought of Italy's ex-King) have caused some to suspect him of having an exotic foreign background. Actually, V.E. is as endemically American as flapjacks and maple syrup. He was born in Dayton, the son of a wealthy utilities man. It was a wonderful time and place to grow up in. Only two doors away Charles F. Kettering was working on a magical invention that would start autos automatically; Orville Wright skittered around in one of the first airplanes. Young Victor caught...