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With that background, Cooper could not resist the temptation to trade his college R.O.T.C. commission for an Air Force lieutenant's bar in 1949. He flew F-84s and F-86s with a fighter-bomber group in Munich for four years, earned an aeronautical engineering degree at Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, qualified for the rugged test-pilot duty at the pioneering Edwards Air Force Base in California-home of the world's highest, fastest jet, the X-15. A few years before his selection as an astronaut, Cooper took a friendly flight with another...
Special Forces are also stationed in the Panama Canal Zone, on Okinawa and in the Bavarian Alps. There, 26 miles south of Munich, some 300 men occupy a former Nazi SS barracks, live a tough outdoor life in which they become expert at skiing, mountain climbing, parachuting and skindiving. In twelve-man teams, they visit nearby friendly nations to learn the terrain, practice landings from submarines along the coast of Norway and mountain tactics in Greece...
...evidence to the contrary - by Allen Dulles and Hans Rothfels, among others) that a German underground did not develop until the war went against Germany. She fails to mention a well-organized plot to overthrow Hitler in 1938, which was sabotaged by Chamberlain's capitulation to Hitler at Munich. She goes so far as to charge the Resistance leaders with sharing Hitler's aims, since they referred to him as a "swindler" and a "madman," but never as a "murderer." This seems a smug academic distinction in view of the fact that no people were tortured more horribly...
...picture is about envy. A French newspaper writer (Jacques Charrier) comes to a village outside Munich and, after basking for a while in self-pity because nobody will notice him, manages to meet a jolly German (Walther Reyer) who is a famous and successful author. To Charrier's amazement, Reyer and his stunning wife (Stephane Audran) make him feel so at home in their luxurious villa that he soon has a latch-key familiarity with the couple. This sudden rescue from loneliness should make Charrier happy; instead, watching Stephane perch adoringly on the arm of her husband...
...wartime superior in The Netherlands, SS Brigadier General Wilhelm Harster. Harster had served eight years as a war criminal in Holland after the war, apparently no hindrance to his employment by the Bavarian Interior Ministry as a legal consultant. Last week Harster was dismissed from his post in Munich-with a pension, of course...