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Painstakingly the author follows Hess through every stage of his secret preparation. As an ex-World War I pilot and the No. 3 man in Nazi Germany, Hess easily managed to finagle the use for "practice flights" of an experimental Messerschmidt 110 with extra gas tanks. Aides surreptitiously collected weather charts. Though Leaser's attempt to weld such details into a tale of step-by-step suspense is not entirely successful, his account has some touching vignettes of Hess-playing with his four-year-old son for the last time; standing uncertainly in the door of his wife...
Among the students in the first two years were ex-prisoners of war in Germany and ex-prisoners of war in America, underground workers, a Messerschmidt fighter pilot, De Gaullists, and Communists. All studied and lived side by side...
Norn de Guerre. In Jerusalem, Rudolf Messerschmidt, 70, asked government per mission to change his name to Rudolf Spitfire...
...other hand, if a British pilot had seen him, he, too, could have downed the Messerschmidt. The long period of daylight in Scotland would have enabled the R.A.F. flyer to catch and down the defenseless German...
...pilots held the stage and Germany, at least, took full advantage of the occasion, competing in all events which she thought she could win, avoiding others. She won the meet hands down, taking first places in the speed, climbing & diving, and solo Alpine circuit races in the new Messerschmidt pursuit planes with which she has decided to replace her Heinkels. Germany also won the Alpine circuit races for three-plane patrols and multimotor bombers. Captain Michy of France won the altitude contest in a Mureaux-113 by climbing 10,000 metres...