THE CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL
AND DIXIE FARM NEWS
Published weekly at Charlotte, N. C.
H. A. Stalls, Editor and Publisher W. M. Witter, Associate Editor
Entered as second-claaa mail matter September 11, 1931, at the
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March 3, 1879. _ -_
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GREAT NAZI BASE NOW
AIDS U. 8 IN BAVARIA
By EDWARD H. SIMS.
Sprrial Correspondent, The Char
lotte Labor Journal
Recently, in Germany, the story
.‘of a great Nazi project, which
came to a United States bastion
in the resistance to Communist
aggression, was called to the at
tention of several newsmen tour
ing Europe. The fascinating story
had its beginning back in 1935,
near Furstcnfeldruck, in Bava
ria.
That little town was a scene of
great secrecy in 1935, when hun
J dreds of laborers started to work
on an enormous project in the
pine sheltered woods near the
town. Not a single word was
published until the construction
was all but finished. On October
1, 1936, with a Bavarian com
mander of the Luftwaffe. General
Jonathan Sperrle attending, the
Furstenfeldbruck Flyers Nest Air
War School was dedicated.
Money was no barrier in the
construction of the base. The
Luftwaffe wa* the pride and joy
of the Third Reich, so only the
best materials available were used
to build one of the first cadet
training bases in Germany. Her
man Goering, Reich Air Marshall,
took a personal interest in the
completion and operation of the
Luftwaffe "Randolph Feld”
Part of the field was set aside
for a Luftwaffe Military Training
Academy. Professors taken from
the finest universities and the fin
est combat fliers were detailed to
teach these “kaydets,” and pro
duced the best pilots in German
history. Captain Joachim Mar
seille, the school’s most famous
graduate, shot down 158 Allied
planes before he was killed in
Africa in a crash.
The Allied command knew that
during the first part of the war
the base was being used only as
a training baseb and as such .had
no strategic value. Therefore the
field escaped the severe bombing
that hit Europe in the earlier
days.
However in October of 1944 the
Luftwaffe sensed what lay in
store for it and therefore six
hundred prisoners-of-war, mainly
Russians, and thousands of other
slave laborers were brought to
the field and quickly put to work
lengthening the airstrip to ac
commodate fighter, conventional
and jet™ At each trip over the Mu
nich area by Allied bombers,
when the Germans were in their
bomb shelters, several PWs scam
pered into the woods and freedom
to await rescue by advancing
forces. By the end of December,
over a hundred of the Russian
prisoners were missing.
In the latter days of the war
the base became a tactical field,
inasmuch as German fighter
groups were being withdrawn to
the interior. The base became
a home for the Messerschroidt
262, a jet propelled fighter, and
other types of conventional fight
ers. The withdrawal to this base
brought on the only severe bomb
ing attack by the Americans
On the afternoon of April 9th,
1945, the base was severely
bombed by 3.38 B-17s of the 1st
Air Division, 8th Air Force. * .
Fifty direct hits were made
on the airstrip, the repair shops
were destroyed, several hangars
destroyed and two work shops
damaged. About the only dam
age discernible at the present
time is one hangar on the line
that has not been repaired and
^ hole in the ceiling of the base
theater where a 500 pounder
came through apd did not ex
plode. The bomb has been re
moved.
American losses were three
B-17s.
The last days of April, 1945,
found everything in a hub-hub of
confusion. High ranking officers
packed their bags and Igft to
organize what they termed as “a
defense Fortress Germany.” La
ter, these same men were found,
posing as innocent peasants In
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Bavarian villages. American
troops arrived and seised the air
field on the 29th April 1945, but
not until the remaining PWs and
townspeople had looted the de
serted installation.
Since that time the field has
been under the jurisdiction of the
70th Fighter Wing.
In January of 1948 the base be
came the overseas base for B-29
squadrons and groups from the
United States, and with the ar
rival of the .16th Fighter Group
from Panama, the same year,
the base became the 36th Figter
Wing Since that time the pride
and joy of the Luftwaffe has
been used by the United States*
not by the aifwhft Adolph Hitler
hoped to dominate the world with.
And the great sprawling airbase,
with its beautiful white buildings j
and runways is today one of the
two U. S. jet fighter fields in
Germany—a most vital unit in the
war against Communism. A few
years can make strange changes
in the best-laid plans of man.
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