Word: jaffe
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...Bonn promised NATO the manpower for 1,326 planes in 20 wings by 1960. But last week, two years after the go-ahead on rearmament, 18 months after pilot training began, the new Luftwaffe was still on the ground. The "few" were now Germans. The German Air Force (or "jaff," as the Americans pronounce it) boasts only 50 trained jet pilots, half of them base-bound as instructors, the rest aloft in a lone F-84 fighter squadron. A spare-parts shortage has grounded 23 of G.A.F.'s 140 planes. The U.S., which had taken Thunderjets out of mothballs...
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