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Originally Posted by Jbabl View Post
Alexander Lippisch, and the Delta Wings
Many more German scientists came to the US as the exploitation program called "Project Paperclip" finally came to be implemented after a lot of red tape-
"War booty" as they called it included many supersonic wind tunnels brought to the US

Siegfried Gunther was a german designer who along with many more(about 6000)scientists, designers, engineers and technicians went to work in the Soviet Union instead. Some were offered more lucrative contracts, Gunther designed the Mig-15


I wonder about how many of the 6k that went to Russia later thought that they'd have been better off in the US.



What might be even worse is that we, for the most part, gave immunity to the people associated with Japanese Unit 731 in exchange for the results of their "research."

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