European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse A skis sife tact a fimm a p8 arrive the tint continent of 71 troops of the 1stle of 8th inf. Reinforced arrive at Rhine main air base from eau Wasluk part of Long thrust in b to st of Airlift Capa i to bolster Sato defense forces in Europe. Is photo by Rohde european edition the is army Navy air Force unofficial publication of i . Arm a in Wop North Africa and the mid edit volume 21, number 21 5 in of Dally 10 unit sunday tuesday May 8, 1962 Happy landings started by John Kritcher London West Malling England is the first american service family to arrive in Europe since the dependent travel ban was lifted reached this naval air station monday evening mrs Max 13,. Lemasters whose husband is a Piaster chief air con troller with ground control a a preach 29 and the two Lam Aster children Max jr., 12, and Cheryl,9 a put Down Here in a Navy plane fat 6 30 . After flight from Prestwick air base Scot anti fers. Lemasters who has been live he in Norfolk her Hus band was sent to this station near London called it a wonderful she arrived at Prestwick her husband was there to greeter. The original plan was to rendezvous at the Mil Den a 11 air base but a Navy plane was at pres Lulck delivering some goods when the air cont on Page 2$, col. I troops launch Long thrust i by Bess Scott staff writer Heidelberg is som Pacific coast based strike londay started a 6,000-mile land tic intr tie Between Testate and West Germany thit a a new test Osipa Witle to bolster nato in Europe. Joint exercise the second Winall out Laos warfare Vientiane up communist pressed an All out civil in Laos after smashing this year old cease fire with big get Victory in modern history army Force were reported lie streaming Down s 100-mile " toward the thai Border Mon morning to Hie Wake of an taking defeat at their key of Nam tha. 1 of pronged smash against Northwestern provincial cent Ertil Vietnam Eye communists i of labels and o3slbly b r 3nimnl�ta, appeared to t to a irrevocable tearing us i Zotian cease fire. Lao left Der Prince Sou had pet Mally As Britten French Canadian diplomats a t fro weeks ago that he Mam tha As Long was to Force. Lugton the United state communist capture of i vi9latlop of Pijie cease intent and urged that the Long thrust operation this year will involve an overseas Exchange Between two Battle groups of the4th inf div. The division part of the strategic army corps strap is stationed at it. Lewis. Wash. The first contingent of the 1,500-Nian 1st Battle up 8th inf rein Force deploying to Germany to replace the 2nd Battle up 39th inf arrived at Rhine main air base monday aboard a military air transport service Mats c135 Jet Mats transports will bring . West coast replacements into Rhine main Over a three Day period. At the same time some 1,900 39th inf troops in training at wild Flecken Germany for the past 90 Days will Board for return flights. Gen laurels Norstad supreme Allied commander in Europe announced Long thrust Iii from Paris late last month. He explained that the switch in stateside Static Denver Impi postman Virgil l my Cioe opened a mall collection Box and a cat jumped out and rain away. Inside the Box Mccune found a note with 88 Ett attached directing him to deliver the cat to 1725 e. 28tb ave., pcs Mot Oest Iowa. 4th div units is an air mobility exercise to test c m a n d an logistic capabilities for reinforcing nato at the same time named Gen Pierre Jacquot commander in chief Allied forces Central Europe to direct Long thrust the overseas Force build up last fall the army stockpile american equipment in Europe for additional infantry and armore divisions. The army explained that the Advance shipments of equip ment would permit Quick overseas movement of troops. In mid january of this year three Battle groups of the 4th div and supporting units were air lifted to Germany in Long thrust ii a similar exercise which deluded War games in the Hohen Fels Germany training area. When the nato operation Anima Nevers closed in Early february the 1st Battle up 22nd inf returned to it. Lewis by air while the 2nd Battle up 47th inf moved to Augsburg Germany and the2nd Battle up 39th inf went to Wildo Ecken for additional train month later the 2nd battled a ,47th inf made a motor March to West Berlin to relieve the 24th inf div 3 1st Battle up 19th an indefinite period Long thrust Iii has Fly phases a Usa eur he spokes Man said it All ties in with the previous he said the 39th inf troops cont on Page 84, col. Is sub fires first Polaris missile Washington a the United states has exploded a nuclear warhead of a missile fired from a Polaris submarine in the of the firing was made by the atomic Energy commission and the defense missile was detonated sunday in the Christmas Island testing area from the nuclear powered submarine Ethan Allen. The test was part of operation Dominic now under Way in the detonation was the fifth in the current series of . Atmospheric tests and the first time a nuclear warhead had been exploded after being launched by rocket As part of a weapons spokesman for the dec declined to give such details As the Altitude at which the explosion occurred and the distance the missile and been reports that the United states would test the Polaris a Long Range weapon which can be fired from a submerged Sumari a during the present test series. The Polaris one of the most important weapons in the . Arsenal has had Many test firings but these teats were con ducted with Dummy test sunday was a Success Ful Experiment with the entire sys tem from launching deep in the Ocean to the firing Point Man Miles away. The United states now has six Polaris nuclear submarines in operation with a total of 41 authorized. This total is not expected to to achieved before 1964.tli? United states conducted an underground nuclear test Mondaunt its Nevada test site. The atomic Energy commission said the shot was of Low yield but gave no details. The description of it Atlow yield Means it probably had a Force about the equivalent of a explosion of 20.000 tons of int. This was the 31st shot in the series of underground tests. The last previous one was april 27, weather partly to Lousy with Sou Tel rain a via. La str Ehan wed today. tilth a to u. Tim Matura a Cord a monday Central cum Teaa Tira 4 4 a . R is 59 in 70 s9 pc 72 57 cd 56 57 Frank t pc 77 is ton Dan Al 61 u Adana Athena asians a Dru Mufeh h 79 Paris Al h a mtg pc Ptel rcom cd 73 4 4 . . K m 88 in Sesa a Claudy by barfly to study a role. H is h air a Uther carries . Spy suspect tells of East contacts _ p. � 1-.- f Karlsruhe German Harold a Borger the first Amer ican citizen to be tried on espionage charges by a German court monday declared he was concerned about revival of Fantt semite film and militarism in West Germany., under German court procedure Tho Whit hatred 43-year-old de fent Tant was not required to state Nattier a wat innocent or guilt of the charge tit however on the open Pitt Day he took no Steps w change his pretrial sol tement that he had Given information to East German communist agents. Gunter Maennel a former East German intelligence offi cer testified Borger himself said he already was working for East German rail fiary Intelli gence when Maenche tried to Fin list him As an agent of the ast German state. Security st Vic up alar. R Maennel Wjt Oie in a Wiesbaden court martial last month was instrumental in convicting air Force capt Joseph Knuffman of espionage said retried to sign up Borger in East Berlin in the Spring of 1960. The court spent much of the Day going into Borger s1 background and Liswa Borger quoted extensive anti German report from British newspapers Ana told a believed West German minister cont on Page 8 ool. 9 French reveal underground nuclear blast Paris ap7french authorities ave announced that France exploded an atomic device under ground May 1 at its Sahara testing Bounri. This was the with nuclear explosion triggered by France in its pro Grain of atomic last French nuclear test was on april 25, 1961.the explosion apparently was re order on . Detection devices but no immediate announcement was made. American authorities said that they took no official notice of the explosion since it Hadnot been announced from France. Aiming for Bomball of the previous French nuclear experiments were carried Outwith Aerial blasts. The series started feb. 13, i960 France avowed is to produce a bomb which can be carried by planes inthe now building French strike first explosions were believed to be from Large no port Able devices. There has been no report on French Progress in the technique of packaging the nuclear warhead for a bomb. Clarke lauds potent army Washington up Gen Bruce c. Clarke former Usa eur commander in chief said Here the army is the most potent. Ground army Ever fielded by and National any time peace or in an interview in the . News and world report Clarke said the 7th army nuclear weapons can deliver in one Day More destructive Power than could a u Field Formy in allow that weapons in the hands oc7th army from the m14 Rifle through the new families of recoil Lesis and assault weapons to the main Battle tank and the missile artillery provide Alle a Bat much greater fire to or Whitn the weapons available at comparable Levels in the world War i rugs Indonesia arow Paer Moscow up foreign minister Mon Day announced Gwen Iii with the soviet Union for tee name tit fax tary de Vertea to
