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• Title: Starting from Scratch Establishing the Bundesluftwaffe As a Modern Air Force, 1955-1960.
• Author : Air Power History
• Release Date : January 22, 2003
• Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 203 KB

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When Germany signed the NATO Treaty in 1955 and began the process of rearming, it faced the daunting process of creating large, modern, and effective armed forces virtually from scratch. Building a navy was a formidable task, but the German federal government had a solid foundation for a navy in the U.S.-supported and trained minesweeping squadrons that operated in the North Sea in the postwar era. For the core of an army, there were hundreds of carefully screened ex-Wehrmacht officers and NCOs serving in organized units of the federal border police. To establish an air force, however, was a very different matter. There was no core group for an air force. German civil aviation and aviation industry both were just getting started again and in no position to produce either modern equipment or trained pilots for an air force--as they had during the 1930s. Although Germany had a large air force in World War II, and had even fielded the world's first jet fighter and bomber units, the former Luftwaffe pilots had be en out of the cockpit for ten years. In the ten years since the end of World War II, aviation technology had seen enormous advances. The U.S., UK, and France had already gone through three generations of modern jet fighters and bombers. Despite the many problems that Germany faced, by 1960 the Federal Republic possessed a fairly modern and capable jet air force ready to play a major role in NATO defense. True, it was a force much smaller than NATO's initial goals for German rearmament and full aerial rearmament took several years longer than expected. Still, it was a fairly successful program by most standards. Germany was provided with a foundation on which to build a much more capable air force. Central to the program of aerial rearmament in Germany was the role of the United States Air Force (USAF) as trainer, mentor, supplier, and organizer of the Bundesluftwaffe. The RAP also played a role, albeit, a much smaller one.

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