European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1952, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes december 1952 nato building 40 Jet airbases in France for defense of West fur Lou program equals Maginot Cost in 2 years members of fhe wedding s in the most Gigantic construction Job known in postwar frenchmen Are working to build 40 military airfields for the de sense of the the project is be ing paid for by the North at lactic treaty work is be ing done almost entirely by French technicians and labourers using French although the Job has been under Way Only slightly less than two in materials and Man Power the work already equals the building of the vast and costly Maginot line which took five twice As big the project is twice As big As the construction of the newly inaugurated Donzer Mondragon Rhone River dam and Hydro electric station Western eur ropes a qualified source gave this picture of the present stage of Airfield construction of the40 airfields 25 will have All to Weir taxi Drain a e and electric Power outlets but no or Barracks by the end of the in other these Fields will be so they could be used in an emergency by airmen living and working in these same 25 Fields Are to have their hangars and but maybe not their by the end of 1953 Early completion one the Royal Cana Dian air Force base at Gros ten Quin will be Complete by the end of the year with bar mess and recreation Halls and All the trimmings considered Normal for peacetime maintenance of three nato airfields for French use Are expected to be brought up to this top construction level Early next the nato manned by and Canadian will form a series of nests of Airpower in Eastern France athwart historic invasion Cost of the and electric Power fuel tanks and sometimes hang ars is borne jointly by the rest of the construction is paid by the country using the How fast the work advances on a Field after the run ways Are Laid in part depends on the shoes of 3yearolds Charles Petrie left and Barney were As shiny As the brides eyes at a recent wedding in How fast the nation using the Field puts out Money for its in length of the runways has been standardized to about feet so As to take jets or heavy enough Concrete and Macadam has been Laid to make a wide modern Highway from Paris to French directed this fast construction program is being directed by Albert hardworking 42 year old chief of the intros tic Ture service of the French air most of the plans were drawn up in but there have been Many changes the first ground was broken in Lack of technicians and Eon tractors with the knowhow for it Predgett note words in brackets i 1 Are not expressed la the words in parentheses help to explain the German but Are not necessary in in single quotation Marks Are word Forward Vrtar Lerner Belde Wir Lerner Schon sle Sprecher Schon of Obj gut Konnen sle much gut Verstegen Zug Schnell Viher Lerner Baide Viher Lerner Baide Schon Zih she Gerhen Shohn Zech Guht Konnen Konnen a Juji much Guthi fers Tehen Tush Shnell we learn both were both learning i you already speak German very Aber Sprecher sle Bitte Nicht zen Zih Bitte Nicht Tsun can can you understand me Well too fast but please dont speak too editors note the daily German lessons Are taken from the Basic course in spoken German prepared by the editorial of armed forces Institute photo the plus bad weather and work rushed at wartime resulted in defective surfacing of some runways assigned to the these Fields were started under the firepower Brussels pact be fore nato was when the korean War broke in 1950 there was not a single Airfield in France which could be used by Jet building of three Fields at and Chau Mont was Given a Gen Hoyt chief of staff of the air said that he was Well pleased with the Speed with which the French Are repairing the defective biggest problem the biggest problem to keep the project a responsible source has been getting the each Field takes a 450 hectare bite of Fer tile French it has been necessary for the French govern buys the land and contributes it free to negotiate with up to 100 proprietors to get enough land for single and negotiations take an average of six often years ago five years ago today King Michael abdicates As King of Romania and leaves Bucharest for an undisclosed ten years ago today Gen Henri Honore g i r a u High commissioner for French announces that 12 persons have been arrested for plotting the death of High French of including and Robert minister in North conducted by Johnny a in Rhine main air offers special reduction in the Price of air travel for students and military personnel and their for students a 50 per cent discount is Given on a return ticket on a roundtrip flight from Frankfurt to Casablanca via mul House Switzerland and discounts on roundtrip tickets for military personnel amount to 20 per cent for groups of four to eight persons 25 per cent for groups of nine to 14 and 30 per cent for groups of 15 or air 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