European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and strips monday aug lit 10, 1959 sword and shield Marks t 0 years of growth nato How Strong is Western Europe s bulwark editor s note nato has been hatted for 10 years As by rope s bulwark against soviet aggression. As nato enters its second decade just How much of i bulwark is itt Here is the first of four reports by a newsman who talked both to generals and Gas in nato s heartland Cen trial Europe. By bpm Price Paris a for 10 years How the North Atlantic treaty organization has been looked upon Ashe sword and shield of Europe. Nato s defensive shield consists of ground troops with the task of stemming any soviet attempt to overrun Europe quickly., the sword is the retaliatory striking Power of the West nuclear or thermonuclear bombs delivered against the soviet Union by manned aircraft of Lauris Norstad nato s present military chief once emphasized Europe s need for a Strong defensive shield by observing that unless an aggression were soon halted the allies would defaced with the impossible task of separating the invaders from the invaded As targets for nuclear reporter s tour 6f nato com mands indicates that As matters now stand the allies possibly could Muster 250,000 men on the ground next to the Iron curtain though not All would be Mobile forces equipped with up to Date arms. The immediately available air cover for Central Europe now consists of somewhere Between 1,500and 2,000 Jet aircraft of All types. The allies also have a classified but apparently limited missile counterpunch mostly in the Short Range Allied Force confronts a soviet bloc in Central Europe which Western sources say has 1,5 million men close to the Borders of the free world and a 23,000-Jetair Force most of which is concentrated in Western Russia and the satellites. Although written into existence april 4, 1949, As a military organization nato really began Jan. 7, 1951, with the arrival of Dwight. Eisenhower then a five Star general to assume command of supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe shape the organization s assignment to Safe guard the Freedom common Heri Tage and civilization of the Signa tory nations., on his first inspection tour Eisenhower found Only seven Skinny divisions and an air Force of about400 planes mostly Piston engine types. But Hopes were High. In november 1951 the French turned up at a nato meeting in Rome pushing for an International army optimism rail High at the romemeeting., the nato Council even set itself a goal of 100 Battle fit divisions in Europe by the end of 1954. It was claimed at the end of1951 that nato had 23 combat ready divisions at Hafrid _ five months later May 1952found shape officers then commanded by Gen Alfred Gurn Brinig about the withdrawal of a French division from the shield forces to fight rebels in that time Gruenther had 15 divisions assigned to nato an based in Germany five each from France Britain and the those other eight Divi Sions had riot disturbed shape was not radar May be spotting red tests Washington a defense officials Are silent on. The Point tout the 5,000-mile-Range of the Navy s new missile detecting radar device obviously would bring rus Sian launching Sites within its the Navy and the Penta gon maintained official secrecy inthe face of speculation that at least some soviet test firings deepen Russia have been monitored by the experimental radar which can spot the rocket blast of a missile Brilliant scientist just 33 almost As soon As it leaves the ground. The new York times reported sunday that soviet missile an satellite firings have been monitored for the last several month from locations within the Boun Daries of the Continental William j. Thaler scientist inthe office of naval research in vented the High frequency radar which solves the problem of detecting something below the curve of the Earth s surface. He was asked at a news conference if soviet tests like . Experiments had been spotted by the radar monitoring system located in the Continental . No comment Thaler disclosed that the new radar had picked up . Ballistic missile test firings in the sout Atlantic and at Johnston Island in the Central of these ranges would be equivalent in distance from the Tepee stands for Thaler s project Washington a Williamj. Thaler is a no nonsense Type of fellow who works hard at his work and hard at his play and is Brilliant at both. One result is that at 33, he has invented what May be one of the most significant of modern devices a radar Eye that can spot a rocket blast 5,000 Miles away Al most As soon As the missile leaves the Navy scientist hit front pages across the country with his press conference unveiling the the pee Short for Thaler s ultrasonic specially the unassuming researcher will be just As Happy to see the Lime Light switch elsewhere. T then i can get Back to work lie says. Work for the Baltimore native Vjio now lives in Silver Spring td., a Washington suburb Means secret projects pushing americas Frontier far Forward. If his past William j. Thaler a photo red Chin fights floods of drought to save crops Tokyo a communist China says its people Are fighting both flood and drought on their vast continent. On the heels of a report that 10 . Gives smokers new tax exemption Albany Era now Way deduct the Newyork state tax on cigarette and other tobacco products when computing their state income that could mean � tax Savins of approximately $3 million a year for smokers according to an a pack a Day smoker now Payseu a year in Elgar Fox. Provinces in North and Centra China were battling the worst drought in Many years said people s communes in piping were working around the clock in a struggle against the heaviest rain in Many Oner third of All the far Landon the. Outskirts of piping is water logged and the members of the people s communes around piping Are fighting the effects of the recent torrential rain in a round the clock Effort to Drain away the water am replant their vegetables and other crops the radio said. Several million peasants were reported fighting the flood while 54 million people were working continuously to fight the drought Over approximately 32 million acres of farm land. Record is a clue to the future the nation will gain much from his Enterprise. A graduate of Loyola College i Baltimore Thaler went to work with the Navy in 1948 while study ing for his doctor s degree in physics at Catholic University in Washington. His specially was ultrasonic physics the study of the composition of molecules through use of graduation in 1951, Thaler joined the acoustics Branch of theoffice of naval research. He soon was assigned to the Field projects ranch which he now Heads. University office Thaler has an office and Labora tory at Catholic University but his Navy Job keeps him away much of the time. He has helped supervise Ever Hydrogen bomb test since the first one. Last year he directed the Trail blazing project Argus involving High Altitude nuclear explosions. As he recalls it the idea for the pee came to him one Day in 1957 in his office. Pie thought of a Stanford univer sity study suggesting that radar s present line of sight Range could be increased by bouncing its beam off the ionosphere the a t m o Sheric layer which reflects radio signals. He remembered too a Yale University study indicating that ionized gases from missile launching might reflect radar. Thaler put the two ideas to Gether and started mathematical calculations to prove his theory. He interested other government scientists in the venture and project Tepee was born. As for play the 6-foot 185-Poundthaler lists Tennis As his Hobby and has a string of tournament victories. Thaler is married to the forme Barbara j. Jarnagin. They have four he plays Only once a week or so for the Navy department team in the i n t r a government league. . To Points in Russia from which the soviets Are Krown to conduct some of their tests. Thaler s comment that tests of the equipment have been made from locations in the Continental . Appeared to Rule out the new states of Hawaii arid. Alaska. Alaska would provide a far for Ward position for the new surveil Lance radar now being developed. The outermost end of the Aleu Tian Chain of islands in Alaska Isgo Miles from islands immediately off the russian Chain. Highly directional in its present experimental form the project Tepee radar equip ment As it is called probably must be aimed closely at a suspected missile firing test Point in Russia. Thaler indicated that the current equipment is highly directional. Although later he expects it can be improved to the Point where several thousand Square Miles can be scanned Byone station. One of the important bits of in formation the . Needs about so Viet missile testing is the extent of failures. If american observers can obtain information on missiles which lift off a firing pad Anco Combine that information with other data they obviously can obtain some clues As to Ilie Success or failure of test firings. So much the withdrawal of the French division 6ut the precedent set in weakening the shield in subordinate in Ottato interests to National interests. France in 19s2 had 100,000 Mencomi fitted to the suppression of the algerian a Volt now France has 850,000 me n in Algeria and the fighting continues meanwhile the. Technology of warfare was undergoing a steady evolution from nonnuclear to nuclear. The age of the guided mis Sile and the Battlefield rocket had arrived. Each can carry atomic the Downing age of atom carrying missiles and rockets the need for armies to increase their mobility arid dispersion likewise increased. The Day of the foot sol Dier fighting in mass was ending. Von june 6, 1959, Norstad said the allies greatest danger might Spring from weaknesses which would invite soviet told a Ding meeting that the weakness of nato could Starta soviet probing operation which might Well get out of \ Norstad report Norstad went to Washington last Spring to report to co Gresson nato s military posture. He said the 21% divisions now As signed to n.4tq were not enough that he needed a minimum of 30divisions equipped with atomic weapons and nato really possesses 2l1/i combat effective divisions is j open to passing years however have seen some technical and logistical improvements in the military Pic nato was born the air Craft detection radar operated 40hours a week. Now the radar net work scans the Iron curtain around the clock. It still has a Short Range reaching Only to the russian Border. But gaps in the network have been it took shape command ers eight hours to reach a sub ordinate command. Now a radio and Telephone system provides immediate spiderweb of Supply dumps containing a 90-Day stockpile of j combat needs has come into being. About 2,000 Miles of a projected3,600-mile Gas and Oil pipeline now these developments however urgently needed do not in them selves defend Central Europe which is the heart of nato. European edition the stars and stripes army Navy air Force col John d. Nottingham Usan editor in chief it col t. J. Cunningham. Jr., Usa asst editor in chief Nathan j. Margolin mona8ing editor Jack Euis spor editor Homer a Cable. Feature editor Elmer d. Frank production manager directory of news bureaus England Germany South Russup a c Moxlow 4300 Darmstadt newsroom c 75366 exl 471 or 472. Sex o. Stuttgart. C 84215 France Spain Paris Boltoc 5400 c exl 468 Madrid 123 fue Carral bldg. 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