Word: messerschmitt
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...nomenclature of World War II, few names are more widely known now than Messerschmitt. It stands for lethal speed in the air by Nazi pursuit ships. Willy Messerschmitt,* 41, is a sharp-nosed, sandy-haired citizen of the placid, medieval town of Augsburg, Germany. He started flying when he was 15, designed his first plane in 1916, became chief engineer of Bayerische Flugzengwerke at Augsburg in 1927, specializing in speed. On April 26 this year, one of his ships with a 1,660-h.p. Daimler-Benz motor set up an absolute record of 469,225 m.p.h. The ship was undoubtedly...
...this gossip the Berlin radio retorted specifically, invited skeptics to telephone Willy Messerschmitt at his Augsburg home. One reporter who did so was Beach Conger, correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, whom the Nazis squeezed out of Berlin last fortnight because he would not retract a dispatch picturing Adolf Hitler and his High Command at odds about invading The Netherlands. Mr. Conger and a British reporter named Geoffrey Cox telephoned Willy Messerschmitt from Amsterdam. The man who answered insisted he was the famed planemaker. "I haven't been out of Germany since the war started," he said...
This incident proved nothing positive about War II's air superiority, or even the whereabouts of Willy Messerschmitt. But both those subjects remained key factors in the war, and last week the New York Times's No. 1 war writer, Hanson Weight-man Baldwin, played down a major story by writing quietly...
...that German production is nowhere near its potential peak right now. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of planes flown in Poland had to be overhauled, taking men off production. And lessons in Poland and the West are doubtless being incorporated in new designs, for which production will wait. Here Designer Willy Messerschmitt comes in, if he hasn't gone...
...Germans scouted clear across France to the Atlantic, sending off raid alarms in cities to which the war had only been headlines and absent men. Allied reconnaissance pushed far and frequently into Germany. German communiques made a point of mentioning that Nazi scouts were accompanied by Messerschmitt fighters.* Nevertheless, they admitted that, in one day, seven observers were lost. Same time the Nazis put the score for the whole war at 52 warplanes lost by Great Britain to 20 by Germany and boasted that Messerschmitts had overcome the French Morane-Saulnier fighters. Britain claimed that 125 Nazi warplanes...