• Operation LUSTY ("Luftwaffe Secret Technology") was the United States Army Air Forces' effort to capture and evaluate German aeronautical technology during...
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    concerning advanced German aircraft and their propulsion systems. Operation LUSTY (Luftwaffe Secret Technology): US efforts to capture Luftwaffe equipment...
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  • Look up lusty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lusty may refer to: Operation Lusty, a non-combat military operation HMS Illustrious (R06), a light aircraft...
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    The Lusty Lady is a pair of defunct peep show establishments, one in downtown Seattle and one in the North Beach district of San Francisco. The Lusty Lady...
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  • Operation Sea Horse was the naval part of Operation Lusty. Lusty's purpose was to locate and recover top secret German weaponry, e.g. aircraft and weapons...
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  • Germany during World War II Wunderwaffe Simons, Graham M. (2016-07-31). Operation Lusty: The Race for Hitler's Secret Technology. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-4738-4738-5...
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    Bomber Wing) and brought to the United States through the efforts of Operation Lusty, on the deck of the Royal Navy's HMS Reaper escort carrier. Reichskommissariat...
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  • defection was a major part of Operation LUSTY, as the Americans gained a wealth of knowledge about jet technology (similar to Operation Paperclip). Many JV-44...
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    USAAF's Operation Lusty were collecting examples of Luftwaffe technology for study. This aircraft and three others were traded to Operation Lusty by Eric...
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    former German Luftwaffe aircraft captured by the American military's Operation Lusty over to North America, such as the sole examples of the Arado Ar 234...
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    to be used for testing and evaluation under a USAAF program called "Operation Lusty". One Do 335 (registration FE-1012) went to the USAAF and was tested...
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    of a Major Command (MAJCOM). A major postwar mission for USAFE was Operation Lusty, in which former Luftwaffe jet aircraft, such as the Messerschmitt...
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    swept up by the Soviets, British and Americans, as part of the USAAF's Operation Lusty. Many Me 262s were found in readily repairable condition and were confiscated...
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    Leck and sent to the US, along with several other recovered aircraft (Operation Lusty), is currently fitted with the tail unit from Werknummer 120222. An...
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    unsung crews of the B-66, RB-66 and EB-66 aircraft. Watson's Whizzer's: Operation Lusty and the Race for Nazi Aviation Technology documents the United States'...
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  • the United States with its own Operation Lusty aviation technology personnel and knowledge recovery program. In Operation Paperclip, beginning in 1945,...
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    Army for logistics operations. In 1945, captured German aircraft brought from Europe on HMS Reaper for evaluation under Operation Lusty were off-loaded at...
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    States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Colonel Harold E. Watson, as part of Operation Lusty and it is believed that Watson himself flew in the aircraft in preparation...
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    Mission was inspired in part by the similar American scientific mission, Operation Lusty, as well as by the German advances in jet aircraft and engines, as...
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    II Operation Lusty returned 86 German aircraft to Wright Field for study, e.g., the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter, while the post-war Operation Paperclip...
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    Republic Aviation by 8 September).[verification needed] Post-war, Operation Lusty recruited German technology experts who were interrogated prior to...
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  • launches of captured V-2 rockets. Hawkeye (1944) – Radar research by US Navy. Lusty (1945) – US actions to capture German scientific documents, facilities and...
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    in Europe, captured German and Italian aircraft were collected by "Operation Lusty". Freeman Field was also charged with the mission to receive and catalog...
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    Europe, the U.S. Army Air Forces Intelligence Service, as part of "Operation LUSTY" (Luftwaffe Secret Technology), took control of three He 219s at the...
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  • aircraft and rocket technologies developed in Germany, the US formed Operation Lusty and UK the similar Fedden Mission in order to gather as much of these...
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  • Other contemporary efforts included Operation Alsos, focusing on nuclear science and engineering and Operation Lusty, devoted to aerodynamics. Troops involved...
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    became a storage depot of many captured German and Italian aircraft (Operation Lusty). Training at the field had stopped and it became the site for the...
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    Adolf Busemann (category Operation Paperclip)
    a team of American aerodynamicists travelled to Germany as part of Operation Lusty. The team included von Kármán, Tsien Hsue-shen, Hugh Dryden and George...
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    a central collection point for captured German aircraft as part of Operation Lusty. Various Luftwaffe aircraft, both piston and jet propelled were flown...
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    19 July 1945, V4 was shipped to the continental United States under Operation Lusty aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Reaper. Following its arrival in the...
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