Evening star., 1946-12-04
Use Of Reich 5 Experts
In Rocket Study Saves
$50 Million for j. 5.
BY the Associated Press

h Germany, by an official Army
estimate, is repaying the United
States for occupation outlays
with scientific brains.
In its first public account Of the
work of German scientists and
|Itechnicians who have come yolun-
ltarily to this country since 5V-J Day
the War Department estimated that
in basic research in rockets alone
they had saved American taxpayers
more than $3.50 0,000, 600.
That approximates the cost of a
years occupation in Germany, Japan
and Korea 1t does not, however,
4 include their contributions in elec-
tronics, jet propulsion and other
scientific fields which were put at
many millions" additional.
Thus far, 270 top-fiight scientific
experts have been brought from
Germany and the number is to be
increased to 1000 as soon as trans
portation is arranged.
Many Can Aid Private Industry.
Gratified at the outcome of an
experiment about which there were
initially some strong official mis-
givings, the War Department said
many of the scientists now could
be released from Army supervision
to work for private industry, re-
search laboratories and educational
institutions.
A years experience and a deci-
sion that there no longer was
danger of reprisals to their fam
lilies in Germany prompted the re-
lease of detailed information about
the scientists who have been help
ing the Army develop tomorrow's
weapons and pursuing basic research
in fields in which Nazi Germany
led the Allies.
Reporters were permitted last
month to interview the groups at
Fort Bliss, Tex, and White Sands,
N. Mex, where postwar experiments
with giant W. rockets have bean
/ in progress, and at Wright Field,
Ohio, center of air forces research
and development.
Army Issues Summary.
Their reports and summary is
sued by the War Department, re-
leased simultaneously last night,
disclosed that:
1. Alert to the competition of
Soviet Russia and Great Britain.
the United States started rounding
UP promising experts in Septem-
ber, 1o45. From the staff of Nazis'
Peenemunde proving ground on the
Baltic Sea, 119 scientists were
sifted for reliability and dispatched
secretly to the New Mexico desert
to help in experiments with seized
W. rockets. Included was Baron
Wehnher Won Braun, "a, onetime
technical director of Peenemunde.
An Austrian, he is credited with
being the principal inventor of the
missile with which the Nazis
blasted London, Antwerp and Liege.
2. A smaller group at Wright
Field includes DR.. Alexander Lip
pisch, former chief designer at the
Messerschmitt Aircraft Works.
8. Thus far their work covers the
fields of eleetronios, Supersonics,
guided missiles and jet propulsion.
They also have made ''inestimable
contributions to industry in fuels
and lubricants, Diesel and turbo-jet
engines, optics, synthetics and other
phases of applied physics and chem
| istry.
Will Save Years of Research.
4. Some are being employed in
the design of a high speed. light
weight Diesel 12-cylinder engine,
expected to weigh no more and bulk
no larger than gasoline engine of
conventional design. Others have
helped in perfection of the ribbon
parachute.
S. Altogether, the program 4prom-
ises to save two to ten years in
American research, since the Ger