ROCKET PLANE PLANS
SENT BY SUBMARINE TO JAPAN LONDON, May 27. Turbine engines and plans of Germany's latest jet-propelled .aircraft were sent to Japan by submarine last January, said Lieutenant Wenger, a jet and rocket technical expert from Berlin, who is a prisoner of United States Third Army troops. Wenger worked in a Czech factory building Messerschmitt jet planes since last December. He then worked on plans for the later development of- a rocket plane built on the same lines as the V-2, but with steering apparatus. Three submarines left for Japan on January 8, carrying two completed jet planes, 12 turbine engines for rocket planes, 22 engineers from the Messerschmitt factory, and three from the Junkers factory.
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Evening Star, Issue 25495, 28 May 1945, Page 6
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