TRAINING GERMAN JET PILOTS
U.S. And Canada To Teach 960 Men
(Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, December 21. Canada is to train 360 Luftwaffe pilots to fly the Sabre mark VI fighters that she sold to West Germany, says the Bonn correspondent of “The Times.” There are 300 fighters in all and they are sufficient to equip at least two wings. . , Another 600 pilots are to be trained in the United States and it is believed that West Germany then will have enough instructors and operational pilots to establish fighter and fighterbomber wings of the Luftwaffe. Training of pilots in both Canada and the United States should be completed by the end of 1958, and West German operational squadrons should be ready to join NATO air forces by the autumn of 1959.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28158, 22 December 1956, Page 13
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