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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FIRST AND THE LAST: THE RISE & FALL OF THE GERMAN FIGHTER FORCES, 1938-1945 (368 pp.]-Adolf Galland-Holf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Memories of the Luftwaffe | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...into two classes-front-line yarns and headquarters stories. This book, written by one of those fast-rising, baby air generals people joked about in World War II, combines in one man's memoirs both the passion of combat and the perspective of command. Germany's Adolf Galland was made general of the Luftwaffe's fighter arm at 29, after shooting down 94 Allied planes on the Western front. Some of his air-battle stories read almost as fast as the Messerschmitts he flew, and his staff-battle accounts give the clearest picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Memories of the Luftwaffe | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...chief casualty of the new labels is that old standby, the rabbit, which for years has traveled under a host of now illegal pseudonyms. Among them: Arctic seal, Baltic leopard, Belgium beaver, bluerette, castorette, chinchillette, erminette, French sable, Galland squirrel, marmotine, minkony, moline, nutriette and twin beaver. Maximum penalty for mislabeling: $5,000 fine and a year in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FURS: What's in a Name? | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...number of German experts who escaped to Argentina after World War II. Now working as adviser on V-weapons for the Argentine Air Ministry is Werner Baumbach, onetime Luftwaffe bomber pilot who claims to have sunk 300,000 tons of British shipping. Another Air Ministry adviser is Adolf Galland, onetime Inspector General of the Luftwaffe Fighter Command. Working with Designer Tank is Hans Ulrich Rudel, a one-legged whirlwind credited with sinking the Russian battleship Marat and two cruisers, as well as knocking out a record of 532 tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Old Hands, New Directions | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

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