GERMAN AIR FORCE
A COMPLETE TRANSITION FULL MILITARY STATUS LONDON, March 12. (Received March 12, at 11 p.m.) The Times Berlin correspondent reveals that the German Air Force actually came into official existence on March 1, when officers of the " Reich Air and Sport Federation" were commissioned with military rank. The correspondent points out that the uniforms of Air and Sport officers have recently become almost identical with the Reichswehr uniform, except for the colour of the cloth and the absence of a sword, which senior officers suddenly started wearing a week ago, while juniors wear a new dirk slung by two straps, similar to that carried by all German naval officers. Other ranks continue to wear a knife slung by a single strap, but once they are equipped with bayonets it will mark a complete transition of the Air Force from a semi-military organisation to a full military force.—Times Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22519, 13 March 1935, Page 8
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