Talk:Landsberg-Lech Air Base/@comment-96.27.9.211-20150810050116

SERVED AT LANDSBERG DURING 1955 - 1958 IN DEVELOPING OPERATIONAL PLANS FOR TRANSITIONING TO FRG CONTROL. UNDER MDAP, THE PROGRAM WAS HEADQUARTERED AT FUERSTENFELDBRUCK WITH PRIMARY PILOT TRAINING DONE AT LANDSBERG, TECHNICAL TRAINING AT KAUFBURFEN AND LOGISTICS MARSHALLED AT NEUBIBERG. THE USAF ESTABLISHED THE BASIC ORGANIZATION WHICH WAS COUNTERPARTED BY FRG FORCES PERMITTING GRADUAL TRANSFER OF OPERATIONS CULMINATING IN GRADUAL PHASE OUT OF THE USAF ORGANIZATION. AS AN INTERESTING BIT OF TRIVIA, THERE WAS ALSO ANOTHER ORGANIZATION AT LANDSBERG WITH A CLASSIFIED MISSION ANTEDATING THE MDAP PROGRAM FOR REVIVING THE FRG LUFTWAFFE. A MEMBER OF THAT OTHER USAF UNIT WENT ON TO A CIVILIAN CAREER AS A BLOCKBUSTER ENTERTAINER--THE LATE JOHNNY CASH...